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Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
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The great Irish poet left a legacy of astonishing poems that speak to new readers with their deep wisdom and quietly devastating imagery.
Eavan Boland was a formidable voice in Irish poetry, challenging the male tradition dominated by Yeatsian writers.
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Breaking through the world of male Irish poetics, Boland was a fierce, feminist voice that was decidedly Irish.