From Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
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A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. In this collection, Heaney's starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Seller Inventory # 27828
Bibliographic Details
Title: District and Circle: Poems.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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