Eavan Boland

These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.

Jody Allen Randolph has taught at University College Dublin; the British Studies at Oxford Programme at St. John's College, Oxford; and Westmont College. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.