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The Romantic Heresy
Muske, Carol | April 24, 1995 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time," by Eavan Boland. In the book, which is a collection of essays, Boland says that the late-twentieth-century poetic imagination is in crisis. The word "crisis" is, alas, sorely familiar to the reader of contemporary American poetry. Indeed, the terrain of poetry has been commandeered as one of the battlegrounds upon which literary skirmishes representing larger culture wars are routinely fought. Boland's interest in these struggles is keen but cool. Boland's own argument constructs itself outside the arena of conflict or perhaps more deeply within it than previously imaginable.

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OBJECT Lessons (Book); BOLAND, Eavan; BOOKS; ESSAYS; POETRY; LITERATURE; CULTURE
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