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District and Circle
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Author
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Seamus Heaney.
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Faber & Faber
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hardcover
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8.75
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5.75
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ISBN
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9780571230969
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76/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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22531
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Description
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Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's 2006 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 21st 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 from a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II—railway ties, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain"—are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "anything can happen." Other images, from the dangerous present, (a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier) are fraught with this same anxiety.
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