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Finders Keepers
Selected Prose 1971-2001
Author: Seamus Heaney
Finders Keepers
$11.99
About This Book
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Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?"
Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781466864061
In The News
“A brimming metaphoric energy . . a buoyant vivacity of description . . . reflective humor . . . and an imaginative penetration . . . unequalled in contemporary critical prose.” —Helen Vendler, The New Yorker
“Seamus Heaney's best prose of the last three decades -- work "as life-enhancing . . . as the poems it celebrates.” —Andrew Motion, The Observer [London]