“Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—
Publishers Weekly
, starred review
These inspiring essays from the celebrated poet Eavan Boland are both critical and deeply personal, revealing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becoming a woman poet. In this thematic sequel to her classic
Object Lessons
, Boland traces her own experiences as a woman, wife, and mother and their effect on her poetry, and she looks to a world where she can change the poetic past as well as the present.