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Human Chain - 1st Edition/1st Printing (2010)

by Seamus Heaney(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0571269222 (ISBN13: 9780571269228)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Faber and Faber

review 1: Could be that I'm a total Philistine, but I didn't find this, my first toe dipped into the waters of Seams Heaney, to be particularly moving or transcendent. I'm content to believe that the Nobel committee knows something I don't.I don't know that much about poetry, but I do know that I don't like lots of poems where the poets write with self-referential navel-gazing, epitomized when referring to oneself in the third person as "the poet." Since Seamus Heaney doesn't do this here, he's OK by me. I did find his work describing the webbed arms of an elderly man to be particularly affecting.
review 2: This book of poetry is absolutely wonderful. Seamus Heaney has a way of being so concisely lyrical, so judicious with his words, such that every word, every phrase c... morearries deep, solid meaning. The poems are stunning. I was especially struck by the way in which he is able to get at important human themes, such as the passage of time, aging, death. I am not surprised that he is a Nobel laureate. I just wish that I spoke more Gaelic! less

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