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District and Circle
Seamus Heaney
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Description for District and Circle
Paperback. Starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. This book includes a number of prose poems and translations. It offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 118. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
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 21st 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 coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images ... Read more
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 21st 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 coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571230976
SKU
KAC0000421
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Cirle is his twelfth collection ... Read more
Reviews for District and Circle
A book as original, startling and aesthetically compelling as any since his magisterial 1984 sequence, Station Island,
The Washington Post Book World [Heaney' s] voice carries the authenticity and believability of the plainspoken
even though (herein his magic) his words are anything but plainspoken. His stanzas are dense echo ... Read more
The Washington Post Book World [Heaney' s] voice carries the authenticity and believability of the plainspoken
even though (herein his magic) his words are anything but plainspoken. His stanzas are dense echo ... Read more