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Selected Poems 1966-1987
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ISBN10: 0374535604
ISBN13: 9780374535605
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Nov 18 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374535605
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Nov 18 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Between my fingers and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.
Helen Vendler called Heaney a poet of the in-between, and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who emerged from a hidden, a buried life in Death of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems Digging and Mid-term Break; the poet of conscience as bleak as he is bright in Whatever You Say Say Nothing and Singing School; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind Field Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)--an artist uncannily attuned to the music of what happens, restlessly searching for images and symbols adequate to our predicament.
This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.
This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.
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