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District and Circle
Jane Smiley
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Description for District and Circle
Includes a number of prose poems and translations. This book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images ... Read more
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
1st Edition
Yes
Number of pages
96
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571230969
SKU
KSG0028238
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99-1
About Jane Smiley
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Cirle is his twelfth collection ... Read more
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