Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

A definitive choice of the Nobel Laureate's best poems. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.
-from "Postscript" Noted for its concreteness an [...]
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A definitive choice of the Nobel Laureate's best poems. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.
-from "Postscript" Noted for its concreteness and musicality, Seamus Heaney's poetry is internationally acclaimed for its ability to unite the ethical and the aesthetic, the matter-of-fact and the marvelous. This volume gathers the landmark poems from Heaney's twelve previous collections, and brings the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Indexes Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. His award-winning books of poetry include The Haw Lantern (FSG, 1987), Seeing Things (FSG, 1991), and The Spirit Level (FSG, 1996). A resident of Dublin, he has taught at Oxford and Harvard.