District and Circle Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374530815 ISBN-13: 9780374530815 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: Heaney's new collection of poetry maintains his trust in the implacableness of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.914 |
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.04" W x 8.22" (0.28 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" - are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. |
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." |