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Field Work

Seamus Heaney

Paperback | Pages: 66 pages

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Original Title:	Field Work
ISBN:	0374516200 (ISBN13: 9780374516208)
Edition Language:	English

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"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first. And the proof is in "Field Work," a superb book . . . [This is] a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing."
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His recent translations include "Beowulf" and "Diary of One Who Vanished"; his recent poetry collections include "Opened Ground" and "Electric Light."
"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first. And the proof is in "Field Work," a superb book . . . [This is] a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing."
"Heaney is keyed and pitched unlike any significant poet now at work in the language, anywhere."--Harold Bloom, "The Times Literary Supplement"
"For all the qualities I list, the most important is song [and] the tune Heaney sings [is] poetry's tune, resolutions of cherished language."--Donald Hall, "The Nation"

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Title	:	Field Work
Author	:	Seamus Heaney
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 66 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1981 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. Ireland

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XXX This is another old favorite of mine, ordered from Amazon with income tax refund this year. I had not realized Seamus Heaney had passed - so glad I was able to get a copy of this book. My library does not have it, any longer. He was a wonderful poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Several of his books are currently out of print, but if you run across them, give them a read. Most of us remember Beowulf, but he had many poems, lilting and running across the heart.

This collection of poems was published in 1976, four years after Heaney left Belfast with his family and moved south to County Wicklow, south of Dublin. Even here, though, far from the Troubles, his mind cannot leave the torment of Northern Ireland. In the opening poem, Oysters, as he is much in the present, Our shells clacked on the plates/Alive and violated/ Bivalves: the split bulb/Millions of them ripped and shucked and scattered, his thoughts gravitate northward. The first part of the next

For me, as an Irishman living abroad, I like to read Heaney on my return. Field Work brought me back to my roots-my childhood and a stimulating new adult experience- and he surely has an especial charm for the Hibernian. Yet, this work and others alike from the Nobel Laureate, deepen particularities and transcend them in a non-zero sum game. A wonderful antidote to a time of perceived rootlessness . This collection served as a fine accompaniment to Jonathan Sacks' book on globalisation-The

Every time I read Heaney's poetry, I feel the need of reading each poem at least three times just to get the sentiment and then another time just because it is beautiful

OystersCasualtyGlanmore Sonnets (VII & X)The OtterHomecomings

So beautiful. In my top 3 Seamus Heaney collections for sure. Especially love the sonnets.

The Heaney kitemark is here in strength, a whole vocabulary of farming life, some curious rhymes hinting at a local accent, puzzlement when the countryside code giving right of way to herded cattle confronts an uncompromising convoy of armoured cars, or an innocent rural journey is tracked by a military helicopter. More elegies for lost friends than you might expect until you notice the manner of their deaths; 'The Troubles' continue and the poet, perfectly aware of the violence, remains