Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971-2001.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small dent to the lower of the front board in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" This collection includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession." Item #27159
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