Book 73 - Seamus Heaney "100 Poems"

[jazzy_dave]

Seamus Heaney "100 Poems" (Faber & Faber)





This is a wonderful collection of some of the Irishman's poems.


"...So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking between you and me,
Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall,
Confident that we have built our wall."
("Scaffolding," p. 13)

"We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening -
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encroaching horizon..."
("Bogland," p. 20)

"Yet for all this art and sedentary trade
I am incapable. The famous
Northern reticence, the tight gag of place
And times...
Where to be saved you only must save face
And whatever you say, you say nothing.
...
O land of password, handgrip, wink and nod,
Of open minds as open as a trap..."
(from "Whatever You Say Say Nothing," p. 43-44)

"And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens."
("Song," p. 73)

In fact, a perfect gift for a poetry lover.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I do like his work a lot!