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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070722
Author:Rachel Hartigan Shea

The Writer's World, a new series of books edited by poet and former Poet's Choice columnist Edward Hirsch, examines how nationality, language and history influence the way writers write and what they write about. The first three books in the series feature authors from Ireland, Poland and Mexico.

Eavan Boland, a poet and the editor of this well-populated collection, aims "to show Irish writers not in reflection, which is not an Irish mode, but in conversation, which is." The writers included here -- from Samuel Beckett to William Butler Yeats, Emma Donoghue to Colm Toibin -- compose their ...

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