Opened Ground - by Seamus Heaney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The definitive choice of the Nobel laureate's best poems, bringing the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>As selected by the author, <i>Opened Ground</i> includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, <i>The Cure at Troy</i> and <i>Sweeney Astray</i>, 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, <i>The New Yorker</i>)--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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today." --<i>Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"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.'" --<i>Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Jay Parini, The Nation</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Seamus Heaney</b> (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include <i>Opened Ground</i>, <i>Electric Light</i>, <i>Beowulf</i>, <i>The Spirit Level</i>, <i>District and Circle</i>, and <i>Finders Keepers</i>. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
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