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Electric Light: Poems

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ISBN: 9780374528416
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Page Count: 98
Publication Date: 4/1/2002
Size: 8.42" l x 5.44" w x 0.38"
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Seamus Heaney's collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding -- whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry. Electric Light ranges from short takes to conversation poems. The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the elegizing of friends and fellow poets.

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