I never thought about silverware that way before!" Instead, most of these poems seemed too-brief, not communicating much that was memorable to me. Some of these poems succeed - for example, "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me" is a nice romantic little lyric - but, as I read them, I kept wishing these poems would delve deeper, that they would unearth some communicable insight that would make me exclaim, "Huh. The first section, "Object Lessons," is devoted to parsing out the emotional significance of quotidian objects: a book, a doll, a coffee mug, etc. "Outside History" is divided into three sections. While I thought her poem "The Journey" (not included in this collection) might qualify as an immortal masterwork, I generally prefer the compression and tightly-wound intensity of other feminist poets such as Plath. I think I'm going to set Boland aside and read something else for a while.
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