Description
This luminous poetry collection travels across time and place, moving from the landscapes of the poet’s childhood to the classical world and the origins of language, memory, and prophecy. Grounded in nature and personal history, the poems explore how ordinary sounds, voices, and objects can open into larger questions of mortality, love, art, and belonging. Alongside intimate childhood recollections and later love poems are elegies honoring fellow poets, creating a resonant dialogue between friendship, influence, and loss. Richly musical and intellectually expansive, the collection showcases the late work of one of the English language’s most significant poets.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Apr 3, 2002
112 pages
ISBN: 9780374528416
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Electric Light by Seamus Heaney.