Eavan Boland directs the creative writing program at Stanford University. She lives in California and Dublin.

Other poems Eavan Boland on Verse Daily:
March 20, 2006:   "Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet" " How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder..."

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Other poems on the web by Eavan Boland:
Three poems
Three poems
"This Moment"

Eavan Boland according to Wikipedia.

About Domestic Violence:

"In these poems, a thunderous past lives inside the hunmdrum day-to-day."
—Philadelphia Inquirer

"Ireland's greatest woman writer is in top form as she dissects the connection between interpersonal and international violence, and the passive and frightened silences that permit them to continue."
—Booklist

"Vivid and passionate. . . .Boland pursues, in fierce, accessible free verse her sense that the personal is political."
—Publishers Weekly