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Electric Light: Poems
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by Seamus Heaney

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The Irish poet's 11th 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.

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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.

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  • Title Electric Light: Poems
  • Author Seamus Heaney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-04-03
  • ISBN 9780374528416 / 0374528411
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Poetry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

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  • New York Times, 04/07/2002, Page 28

About the author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

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