Paula Meehan & Gavin Jennings on "The Eavan Boland Legacy"
“Boland forces the reader to the altar and reconsider their understanding of and place in history. As Meehan told me; '[Boland] knows that history tells us what happened in the past, poetry tells us how it felt to live that past. She distinguished between history and the past. History is the meaning that accumulates around the past.' Boland’s womanhood provided a much needed shake-up of Irish writing in the twentieth century. ”
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Ghazal Ali on Language as Form
"Matrilineage [Umbilicus]' sprung from this unsettledness, not halfway into my first pregnancy, when my body ceased to be entirely mine. I came to the page eyes closed, hands outstretched to trace the contours of my thinking. I could not yet trace the face of my child, so I tried instead to touch each thought as it was born." |
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