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District and Circle: Poems
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author: Seamus Heaney
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District and Circle: Poems Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374140922
ISBN: 0374140928
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2006-05-30
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Product Release Date: 2006-05-30
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374140922
ISBN: 0374140928
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2006-05-30
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Product Release Date: 2006-05-30
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Editorial Review of District and Circle: Poems
Seamus Heaney's new collection 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. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.
Customer Reviews of District and Circle: Poems
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Review Summary: District & Circle
Review: The title poem alone is worth the admission price. A great work, "Tollund Man" and other poems harken back to early Heaney--an elder echo to North, Wintering Out and Door Into the Dark.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A LOVELY BOOK
Review: THIS IS WHAT A 'SLIM VOLUME' SHOULD BE, HARD COVER,WELL BOUND, QUALITY PAPER, EASY TO SLIP INTO A POCKET AND SIP FROM AT ODD MOMENTS. WONDERFUL POEMS, LIKE A SERIES OF SNAPSHOTS - WHAT ONE EXPECTS FROM SEAMUS HEANEY, A VARIETY OF INTENSE, IMMEDIATE; SHARED MOMENTS, LIKE THE 'COLD SMOOTH CREEPING STEEL AND SNICKING SCISSORS' OF CLIP.
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Review Summary: Smoking Irish peat
Review: It felt as if a piece of smoking Irish peat had been flung in my door when this little paperback arrived in Santa Monica, California. The pages are alive with Ireland, the thoughts and feelings I had forgotten or never knew how to acknowledge.
"There was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out."
The unseen and untouchable are tangible here. I love it all.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Drum Major of Modern Poetry
Review: You cannot read these poems without feeling better about the whole universe. He hears an underground piper. His house has no upstairs. He celebrates stretcher bearers, bricklayers. Turns walls into air. He chooses red haws and whins, brogues and rigs, cripples with perseverence and we feel the work as we go along. He watches the pollen sowings tarnish her pools. He's mother nature's strong right hand and eye. God bless him.
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Review Summary: An Evening with Heaney
Review: Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's latest collection "District and Circle" takes us into a multitude of worlds. The finest poems seem to be in the front and in the back. In these poems he chants lyrically about Irish farming practices to miniature homages to other poets, such as Rilke and Neruda. In the first poem, the reader can actually hear the grunt of the laborer as he struggles with his tools and we are given the sensation in real time. From a boyhood in the Second World War to what seems an odd morning in the life a mature poet, we feel the impressionist candor of Heaney's writing. I found this collection enjoyable, but there are a few forgettable poems, and a few that seem irrelevant, but it may be that I missed the nuances. Overall, it is worth reading, but do not make it your only foray into Heaney's poetry for, admittedly, it had been mine.
Review Summary: District & Circle
Review: The title poem alone is worth the admission price. A great work, "Tollund Man" and other poems harken back to early Heaney--an elder echo to North, Wintering Out and Door Into the Dark.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A LOVELY BOOK
Review: THIS IS WHAT A 'SLIM VOLUME' SHOULD BE, HARD COVER,WELL BOUND, QUALITY PAPER, EASY TO SLIP INTO A POCKET AND SIP FROM AT ODD MOMENTS. WONDERFUL POEMS, LIKE A SERIES OF SNAPSHOTS - WHAT ONE EXPECTS FROM SEAMUS HEANEY, A VARIETY OF INTENSE, IMMEDIATE; SHARED MOMENTS, LIKE THE 'COLD SMOOTH CREEPING STEEL AND SNICKING SCISSORS' OF CLIP.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Smoking Irish peat
Review: It felt as if a piece of smoking Irish peat had been flung in my door when this little paperback arrived in Santa Monica, California. The pages are alive with Ireland, the thoughts and feelings I had forgotten or never knew how to acknowledge.
"There was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out."
The unseen and untouchable are tangible here. I love it all.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Drum Major of Modern Poetry
Review: You cannot read these poems without feeling better about the whole universe. He hears an underground piper. His house has no upstairs. He celebrates stretcher bearers, bricklayers. Turns walls into air. He chooses red haws and whins, brogues and rigs, cripples with perseverence and we feel the work as we go along. He watches the pollen sowings tarnish her pools. He's mother nature's strong right hand and eye. God bless him.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: An Evening with Heaney
Review: Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's latest collection "District and Circle" takes us into a multitude of worlds. The finest poems seem to be in the front and in the back. In these poems he chants lyrically about Irish farming practices to miniature homages to other poets, such as Rilke and Neruda. In the first poem, the reader can actually hear the grunt of the laborer as he struggles with his tools and we are given the sensation in real time. From a boyhood in the Second World War to what seems an odd morning in the life a mature poet, we feel the impressionist candor of Heaney's writing. I found this collection enjoyable, but there are a few forgettable poems, and a few that seem irrelevant, but it may be that I missed the nuances. Overall, it is worth reading, but do not make it your only foray into Heaney's poetry for, admittedly, it had been mine.