{"product_id":"9780393285734","title":"An Origin like Water: Collected Poems, 1967-1987","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Readers of this work will recognize and relish the way this collection charts a life's course.\"--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. Included in this volume is the work from Eavan Boland's five early volumes of poetry: \u003cem\u003eNew Territory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe War Horse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn Her Own Image\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNight Feed\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Journey\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The poems from Boland's first book, \u003cem\u003eNew Territory\u003c\/em\u003e, show her to be, at twenty-two, a master of formal verse reflecting Irish history and myth. This collection charts the ways in which Boland's work breaks from poetic tradition, honors it, and reinvents it. Poems like \"Anorexic,\" \"Mastectomy,\" and \"Witching\" have an intensity reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. In later poems, her subjects become more personal, sequencing Boland's life as a woman, poet, and mother. Boland writes, \"I grew to understand the Irish poetic tradition only when I went into exile with it,\" becoming, in effect, \"a displaced person \/ in a pastoral chaos.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This collection demonstrates how Boland's mature voice developed from the poetics of inner exile into a subtle, flexible idiom uniquely her own.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077686444272,"sku":"9780393285734","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393285734_p0.jpg?v=1763696933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393285734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}