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008			050922s2006 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2005044687
020			_a0374140928 (alk. paper)
020			_a9780374140922
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm61748460
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dBAKER _dC#P _dIXA _dDLC
050	0	0	_aPR6058.E2 _bD57 2006
082	0	0	_a821/.914 _222
100	1		_aHeaney, Seamus, _d1939-
245	1	0	_aDistrict and circle / _cSeamus Heaney.
260			_aLondon : _bFaber and Faber, _c2006.
300			_a78 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aSeamus 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.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005044687-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005044687-d.html
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