In Her own Image. With Drawings by Constance Short. Dublin: Arlen House, 1980. First Edition, Paperback Issue. Pp, 38. Blue wrappers lettered in black & white. Light creasing to covers & a few minor scratches. Ownership name to half-title. Contents bright & clean.

Boland’s controversial fifth book of poetry.

“In 1980 the Irish poet Eavan Boland published In Her Own Image a volume of poetry which stands as a landmark in her career as a writer for its subversive potential to revise creational myths that have contributed to the traditional construction of female subjectivity.”   [Female Iconography and Subjectivity: Laura Ma Lojo Rodríguez]