Finders keepers
Subtitle: selected prose 1971-2001
By: Seamus Heaney.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Description: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from Heaney's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets-Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors-Finders Keepers becomes, as its title heralds, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."