Eavan Boland's in the greatest degr...

Eavan Boland's in the greatest degree recent books are Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the bard in Her Time and An Origin like Water: piece of poetrys 1967-87, both with WW Norton. She was lately poet-in-residence at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, during its centenary year. She is Professor of English at Stanford University and teaches there the same quarter a year.

JANE HOOGESTRAAT was forward the poetry board when the editors were preparing the Spring 1986 issue of Chicago Review, in which Boland's "The Journey " would appear. She remembers: "When the Chicago Review received