Today I found the quote that I need to launch my thesis. I've been reading and reading about Eavan Boland -- poems, essays, articles, criticism -- and here's the sentence that will get me in, get me a title even, if I am lucky."The disorganization of the beloved moment"
Isn't that great? It's from an interview with Elizabeth Schmidt, titled "Where Poetry Begins: Eavan Boland in Conversation" published in American Poet (Spring 1997). You can read the entire essay at the Academy of American Poets website.
I'm not crazy about this photo of her, but there needs to be one, shining above me like a beacon right now. So here:
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