About this title: This collection of poetry, combining the visionary with the actual, was inspired by the bubble in the spirit level and celebrates moments when the challenge of simply going on with life is transformed into a world of possibility.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374525118ISBN:0374525110
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1996-06-30
ISBN-13:9780374267797ISBN:0374267790
Description: Very Good. From University Professor's private collection! Not ex-library, remainder or cutout. Binding is square and tight. Clean inside and out. No writing or highlighting noted (may have name or short inscription inside). read more
Description: Fine. Excellent condition. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Minor shelfwear/small whiteout on 1st blank page. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
"I am not a frequent poetry reader, but I recorded this one for Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic and was mesmerized the whole time. I recommend immersing yourself in it by reading it aloud. In addition to being a master imagist, Heaney is also obsessed with the sound of words and your mouth will love you for letting it shape such scrumptious passages. ."
"Heaney's usual and intensely personal theme of identity comes up, again, with this book. But here there is an added element. As with Death of a Naturalist, Heaney brings his father into the poems. But here, it's unclear how he works in, especially considering the middle poems centered around the return of Agamemnon from the Trojan War."
"This is a gem of a book. It is deceptively short: the poems require you to read very slowly.
Heaney really knows how to end a poem: he never wastes your time. Every poem in this little volume is good and worth thinking about. Heaney has remarkable powers of description, but he never uses them just for description's sake. He makes every image work, and the reader is left with a feeling, a sympathy or an idea.
As usual, Heaney uses the imagery of Ireland, of pastoral life, and of work. His poetry often concerns the relationship between work and dignity. Few poets have accomplished what he has in this regard.
Heaney is a reminder that poetry is still good. He is a poet for all people, a communicator, which is what a poet is supposed to be."
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