A Woman Without a Country Poems Author:Eavan Boland A powerful work that examines how?even without country or settled identity?a legacy of love can endure. The stunning poems in A Woman without a Country search out the delicate intersections between generation and identity and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Themes of mother, daughter, and generation echo th... more »roughout this extraordinary volume of poems that looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an individual. From ?Talking to my Daughter Late at Night?