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It's a time of reevaluation in Ireland, and very often that kind of ferment becomes a very strong, powerful world of feeling. And I think Irish writing is really splendid at the moment in all the arts fiction, poetry, drama and music. Born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Boland is the author of 16 books, including her most recent volume of poetry, The Lost Land . For writing about such issues as war, poverty, women's struggles and family, she has earned the 1997 Irish Literature Prize, the 1997 Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum and the 1994 Lannan Award in Poetry, among others. She has published extensively in American journals, including The American Poetry Review , The Atlantic and The New Yorker .