Built of romantic images and powerful observations and questions, the poems here are both accessable and striking. Boland's work especially tackles questions of domesticity, gender, art, motherhood, myth, and history---her language is ever conversational and calm, but the poems are all the more powerful for her understated style. Absolutely recommended to all poetry readers, though I think that women might be most affected by the sentiments---this is a collection I'll come back to, and I'll certainly be looking up her other works. ( )