In this text, Eavan Boland meditates on being a woman and a poet in modern Ireland. In prose, she talks about the challenges of speaking honestly and truly in Ireland - where to be a woman (especially a surburban married woman with children) and a poet has seemed in the past a contradiction in terms. Boland focuses on "obstinate details" that represent larger meanings. The autobiography is not confessional, the facts connect with other voices, other lives. She is uneasy with Modernism and concerned with the erotic. A sense ...
Read More
In this text, Eavan Boland meditates on being a woman and a poet in modern Ireland. In prose, she talks about the challenges of speaking honestly and truly in Ireland - where to be a woman (especially a surburban married woman with children) and a poet has seemed in the past a contradiction in terms. Boland focuses on "obstinate details" that represent larger meanings. The autobiography is not confessional, the facts connect with other voices, other lives. She is uneasy with Modernism and concerned with the erotic. A sense of continuities mark the book, the portrait of a critical imagination moving among history's obstacles, finding itself in the lessons of objects and poems.
Read Less
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $6.49, fair condition, Sold by ZBK Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Woodland Park, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. Used book-May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $7.48, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $7.48, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $7.49, good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $7.50, good condition, Sold by Dunaway Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W.W. Norton & Co..
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $7.50, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Diamond rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x8; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Add this copy of Object Lessons. The Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by R & M Gerber Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lake Peekskill, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Vintage.
Add this copy of Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $20.32, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1996 by Vintage.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN: 9780099580614.
Add this copy of Object Lessons. the Life of the Woman and the Poet in to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Sutton Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by W.W. Norton and Company, 1995.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in fine dust jacket. Hbk, 254pp, stated 1st edition, beginnings of foxing to long foredge, otherwise an unread copy, excellent, clean, tight and unmarked.
