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Electric Light : Poems by Seamus Heaney (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Electric Light, Paperback by Heaney, Seamus, ISBN 0374528411, ISBN-13 9780374528416, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Ranging from short takes to conversational poems, a pre-Socratic collection of poetry about origins and oracles explores the places from where things start, the ground of understanding, whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus, or the Bann valley in County Derry. Reprint.
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The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the everything flows and steady go of the world. --from Perch Seamus Heaney's collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding -- whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry. Electric Light ranges from short takes to conversation poems. The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the elegizing of friends and fellow poets. These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard exting his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374528411
ISBN-139780374528416
eBay Product ID (ePID)2283708
Product Key Features
Book TitleElectric Light : Poems
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2002
GenrePoetry
AuthorSeamus Heaney
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight5.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsHeaney's status as one of the most significant poets writing in English and the greatest Irish poet since Yeats in already well established. Electric Light is further confirmation of his power to capture and transcend the immediacy of the moment, to find the stillness at the heart of things., "Heaney's status as one of the most significant poets writing in English and the greatest Irish poet since Yeats in already well established. Electric Light is further confirmation of his power to capture and transcend the immediacy of the moment, to find the stillness at the heart of things." -- Joe Treasure, Los Angeles Times Book Review " Electric Light includes poems that are sparks of fulminating retrospection . . . To say it the best I can . . . [Heaney] exercises poetry's power to proclaim truth and the artist's power to make us know that it is a truth we can't be without . . . Engagement is the heart of a poem . . . and Mr. Heaney's strongest engagement in this collection is with time: the past that lives, the present that dies." -- Richard Eder, The New York Times "Arguably the finest poet now writing in English." -- James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review, "Heaney's status as one of the most significant poets writing in English and the greatest Irish poet since Yeats in already well established. Electric Light is further confirmation of his power to capture and transcend the immediacy of the moment, to find the stillness at the heart of things." --Joe Treasure, Los Angeles Times Book Review " Electric Light includes poems that are sparks of fulminating retrospection . . . To say it the best I can . . . [Heaney] exercises poetry's power to proclaim truth and the artist's power to make us know that it is a truth we can't be without . . . Engagement is the heart of a poem . . . and Mr. Heaney's strongest engagement in this collection is with time: the past that lives, the present that dies." --Richard Eder, The New York Times "Arguably the finest poet now writing in English." --James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review, Electric Light includes poems that are sparks of fulminating retrospection . . . To say it the best I can . . . [Heaney] exercises poetry's power to proclaim truth and the artist's power to make us know that it is a truth we can't be without . . . Engagement is the heart of a poem . . . and Mr. Heaney's strongest engagement in this collection is with time: the past that lives, the present that dies.
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal821/.914
Lc Classification NumberPr6058.U37
