{"product_id":"selected-poems-1966-1987","title":"Selected Poems 1966-1987","description":"\"Between my fingers and my thumb\nThe squat pen rests.\nI'll dig with it.\"\nSelected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost.\nHelen Vendler called Heaney \"a poet of the in-between,\" and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections,Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who \"emerged from a hidden, a buried life\" inDeath of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems \"Digging\" and \"Mid-term Break\"; the poet of conscience \"as bleak as he is bright\" in \"Whatever You Say Say Nothing\" and \"Singing School\"; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behindField Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)-an artist uncannily attuned to the \"music of what happens,\" restlessly searching \"for images and symbols adequate to our predicament.\"\nThis volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374258686\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374258686.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Heaney, Seamus\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41499429470266,"sku":"DBV.0374258686.A","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374258686-0.jpg?v=1783029339","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/selected-poems-1966-1987","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}