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Title: These are wonderful poems!
Review: //The poems in The Lost Land trace the history of Ireland from the time "after the wolves and before the elms" to the present.In addition, some of the poems are also about language, i.e. the effect of the imposition of English on the Irish and the idea that the words we speak today contain the memory of other languages."That is what language is:a habitable grief. A turn of speechfor the everyday and ordinary abrasionof losses such as this"("A Habitable Grief", at p. 32 of The Lost Land,)"What is a colonyif not the brutal truththat when we speakthe graves open"("Witness" at p. 18 of The Lost Land)As always, wonderful poems from Eavan Boland.
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