Finders Keepers
Selected Prose 1971-2001
By Seamus Heaney
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 9780374154967, 464pp.)
Publication Date: June 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays
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Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "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 poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's 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."
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His recent translations include Beowulf (2000) and Diary of One Who Vanished (2000); his recent poetry collections include Opened Ground (1998) and Electric Light (2001).
"A brimming metaphoric energy . . a buoyant vivacity of description . . . reflective humor . . . and an imaginative penetration . . . unequalled in contemporary critical prose." --Helen Vendler, The New Yorker
Seamus Heaney's best prose of the last three decades -- work "as life-enhancing . . . as the poems it celebrates." --Andrew Motion, The Observer [London]
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1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
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The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
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The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
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Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
