{"product_id":"opened-ground-selected-poems-1966-1996-9780374526788","title":"Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs selected by the author, \u003ci\u003eOpened Ground\u003c\/i\u003e includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, \u003ci\u003eThe Cure at Troy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSweeney Astray\u003c\/i\u003e, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--\"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive\" (Helen Vendler, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: \"Crediting Poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include \u003ci\u003eOpened Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the \"most important Irish poet since Yeats.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627676274962,"sku":"9780374526788","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1b8ccf9-ce6d-46b1-b925-b34473056675.jpg?v=1732708322","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/opened-ground-selected-poems-1966-1996-9780374526788","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}