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<div align="center"><b>Eavan Boland<br><br>
</b>Poetry Reading<br><br>
Thursday, February 7, 7 p.m., Linsly-Chittenden 101 (63 High
Street)<br><br>
Sponsored by the Department of English and Jonathan Edwards
College<br><br>
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Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland is one of Ireland’s premier
contemporary poetic voices. Her ten books of poetryincluding this year’s
<i>New Collected Poems</i> (W.W. Norton and Company), joining <i>An
Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87</i> document the challenges
of modern identity, filtered through lenses of Irish history, femininity,
and the trials of the everyday. In her poem “The Pomegranate,” Boland
movingly writes of her first encounter with the Eurydice myth as “an
exiled child in the crackling dust of/ the underworld, the stars
blighted.” She has taught at Bowdoin and Washington University, and has
been Writer in Residence at Trinity College and University College
Dublin. She is on the board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the
Irish Academy of Letters, and is on the advisory board of the
International Writers Center at Washington University. She currently
teaches English and writing at Stanford.<br><br>
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Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
susan.bianconi@yale.edu </blockquote>
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