Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971 To 2001

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 452 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaneys "How should a poet properly live and write What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world"Along with a selection from the poets three previous collections of prose ( Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue , and The Redress of Poetry ), the present volume includes Heaneys finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

ISBN: 9780374154967