Boland, Eavan | Katie Conboy (essay date 2000)
Katie Conboy (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Conboy, Katie. “Revisionist Cartography: The Politics of Place in Boland and Heaney.” In Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities, edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick, pp. 190-203. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Conboy investigates the connection between poet and place in the work of Boland and Seamus Heaney.]
… and when I take down the map of this island, it is never so I can say here is the masterful, the apt rendering of the spherical as flat, nor an ingenious design which persuades a curve into a plane, but to tell myself again that
the line which says woodland and cries hunger and gives out among sweet pine and cypress, and finds no...
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