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Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Author: Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground

Opened Ground

$12.99

About This Book

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations,...

Page Count
512
On Sale
01/13/2014

Book Details

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466855700

In The News

“[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today.” —Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review

“Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.'” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry.” —Jay Parini, The Nation

“Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers.” —Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books

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Opened Ground

Opened Ground

$12.99