num_pages: 464
description: Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?"Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose ( Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue , and The Redress of Poetry ), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."
language: English
title: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
titlecomplete: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
genres: Essays, Literary Criticism, Ireland, Philosophy, Criticism, Irish Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 196
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux