Download or read book Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 written by Eavan Boland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential volume by one of our most esteemed poets. "[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention." —David Walker, Field