Electric Light by Seamus Heaney

Electric Light by Seamus Heaney

The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf

In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air
That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold
In the everything flows and steady go of the world.
--from "Perch"

Seamus Heaney's collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding -- whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry.

Electric Light ranges from short takes to conversation poems. The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the elegizing of friends and fellow poets. These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard exting his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.

ing to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard exting his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.ing to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard exting his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.ing to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard exting his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection.

Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780374528416
ISBN 10	0374528411
Title	Electric Light
Author	Seamus Heaney
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year published	2002-04-03
Number of pages	112
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