Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, 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 ...
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Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, 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 'glosses' to conversation poems whose cunning passagework gives rein to the must and drift of talk. The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the fixities of remembrance: elegising friends and fellow poets, naming the real names of contemporaries behind the Shakespearean roles they played at school. These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to assign to things their proper names; once again, Heaney can be heard extending his word-hoard and rollcall in this, his eleventh collection.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First printing of this Heaney collection, in fine order throughout. Clean, crisp and bright internally, in smart dark blue boards with white tilting to spine. D/j, now in removable protective sleeve, would be fine too but for fading to spine. 8vo. [8] 81pp.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line. DJ very good, mild edgewear and bumped corners; trace surface wear. Else a clean and tight copy.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line. Trace edgewear and slight bumping to DJ. Else a clean and tight copy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x8; Hardcover. Stated first edition with full number line. Signed by author on title page. Light shelf wear to boards and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar wraps. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) Fine Copy In Like Jacket(As new) First Edition/First Printing.14.99 on Flap. Signed On the Title-Page. Gorgeous Copy.