Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Eavan Boland
Born: September 24, 1944
Died: April 27, 2020 (aged 75)
Bio: Eavan Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor who was active since the 1960s. She was also a professor at Stanford University.
Known for:
- Outside History (1990)
- New Collected Poems (2005)
- In a Time of Violence (1994)
- The Lost Land: Poems (1998)
- Against love poetry (2001)