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The spirit level / Seamus Heaney.
LIBRA PR6058.E2 S67 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Irish authors.
- English poetry.
- Northern Ireland--Poetry.
- Northern Ireland.
- Ireland--Poetry.
- Ireland.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 81 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
- Summary:
- In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
- Contents:
- The Rain Stick
- To a Dutch Potter in Ireland
- A Brigid's Girdle
- Mint
- A Sofa in the Forties
- Keeping Going
- Two Lorries
- Damson
- Weighing In
- St Kevin and the Blackbird
- The Flight Path
- An Invocation
- Mycenae Lookout
- 1. The Watchman's War
- 2. Cassandra
- 3. His Dawn vision
- 4. The Nights
- 5. His Reverie of Water
- The First Words
- The Gravel Walks
- Whitby-sur-Moyola
- The Thimble
- The Butter-Print
- Remembered Columns
- 'Poet's Chair'
- The Swing
- The Poplar
- Two Stick Drawings
- A Call
- The Errand
- A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
- M.
- An Architect
- The Sharping Stone
- The Strand
- The Walk
- At the Wellhead
- At Banagher
- Tollund
- Notes:
- Whitbread Book of the Year, 1996.
- ISBN:
- 0374525110
- 9780374525118
- 0374267790
- 9780374267797
- 0374975256
- 9780374975258
- OCLC:
- 33440931
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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