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Title: A bit too self-important?
Review: While Ms. Boland's early poems were filled with a kind of daring and surprise, this latest book seems to have settled for the mock-solemnities of someone who believes she has "arrived." What once was spark now is ash, what once was passionate engagement now is yawning piety. One wishes her writing life weren't quite so settled.
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