In this, her ninth book of poems, Boland continues to pursue the ... through the central lyric sequence in this compact... Eavan Boland, edited by Jody Allen Randolph. Norton, $24.99 trade paper ...

Did the poems I had read, or the poetic tradition I had inherited, encourage me to do that?” So writes Eavan Boland in Reading as Intimidation, one of 29 essays included in Citizen Poet ...