For my second poetry episode, I'm exploring Eavan Boland's collection Code - I discuss the prominent themes of love and feminism in her work and consider what techniques she uses to make her poetry so effortless and deft, as well as wonderful to read. 

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 Sources mentioned: 

 "The Text of It": A Conversation with Eavan Boland by Pilar Villar
 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20558065?read-now=1&seq=1

 The Stoicisms of Love by Alice Quinn (interview in which Eavan Boland talks about love poetry) 
 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/29/the-stoicisms-of-love

 On Heteropessimism by Indiana Seresin
 https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/?fbclid=IwAR0FDsIQ3p3IyO1maHa7tRKqL7FgmM_AWDgzCLDNxLKJ0fBM5--Fmxv6ZHw 

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