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Synopsis
Nobel Prizewinner Heaney chooses the best among his poems over three decades, including several uncollected poems and his Nobel Address, "The Redress of Poetry." A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
| Size | | Length: | 443 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...Heaney has assembled a collection with a satisfying heft and more than enough variety of subject and style to delineate the shape of a long and constantly evolving career. It eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today."
New York Times Book Review - Edward Mendelson (12/20/1998)
"The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry; they help us to live our lives by providing acute analogues to everyday experience, and by swinging a lantern ahead of us in the fog of our lives."
Nation - Jay Parini (01/04/1999)
"Fuller than a selected poems yet more abstemious than a collected, OPENED GROUND presents Heaney's dialogue with himself almost too coherently. Though quality has guided his choice, he excludes a number of intriguing poems that point to roads not taken in his work, preferring pieces that are more characteristic than successful."
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