| Seeing Things Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author), Heaney (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374523894 ISBN-13: 9780374523893 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1993 Annotation: "Seeing Things" (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in "The New York Times Book Review," "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the "Aeneid" and the "Inferno," this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821 |
| LCCN: 91021669 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven. Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." |