{"product_id":"selected-poems-1988-2013-seamus-heaney-paperback","title":"Selected Poems 1988-2013 -- Seamus Heaney, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\n\nOften considered to be \"the greatest poet of our age\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 \"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.\" He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with \"the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values.\" Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was \"the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority.\" Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1988-2013\u003c\/i\u003e, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things \u003c\/i\u003e(1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) where we experience \"the poem as ploughshare that turns time \/ Up and over.\"; the landmark translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e (1999); \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Seamus Heaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.2\" H x 5.4\" L x 0.8\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374535612\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51740853829931,"sku":"9780374535612","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780374535612_b9b95fed-332d-45ae-ba83-8fd869b7781f.jpg?v=1774823404","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-1988-2013-seamus-heaney-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}