District and Circle
Seamus Heaney, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (78pp) ISBN 978-0-374-14092-2
The latest from the Irish Nobel laureate may be his best in more than a decade. Celebrations of everyday objects (a fireman's helmet, a sledgehammer, an anvil), homages to and elegies for other poets (George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz) and gleaming recollections from the author's rural youth dominate this lyrical volume, which stands out as well for its diversity of forms: the supple pentameters Heaney perfected in such 1990s volumes as
Reviewed on: 02/20/2006
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 80 pages - 978-0-571-23096-9
Open Ebook - 96 pages - 978-1-4668-5549-6
Paperback - 96 pages - 978-0-374-53081-5