Finders Keepers
Selected Prose 1971-2001
By Seamus Heaney
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Paperback, 9780374528782, 464pp.)
Publication Date: April 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays
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A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the “tenacious curiosity” (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate
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 his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?”
Along with a selection from Heaney’s three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets—Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors—Finders Keepers becomes, as its title heralds, “an announcement of both excitement and possession.”
Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His most recent volume of poems is Electric Light (FSG, 2001). A resident of Dublin since 1976, he teaches regularly at Harvard University.
“[Heaney’s] approach to poetry—sensitive but tolerant, and attentive to beauty above all—suffuses Finders Keepers. It will delight those who have come to love Heaney’s own rich and humane verse.” —Adam Kirsch, The Boston Globe
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