A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether
autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures
circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet live and write?
What is his relationship to be to his own voice and place?"Finders Keepers" is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades.
Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and
lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: 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?; As well as being a selection of the poet's three previous collections of
prose ("Preoccupations", "The Government of the Tongue", and "The Redress of
Poetry"), the present volume includes material from "The Place of Writing", a
series of lectures delivered at Emory University in 1988. Also included are a
rich variety of pieces not preiously collected in volume form, ranging from
short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books.
In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and
East European, predecessors and contemporaries - "Finders Keepers" is, as its
title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession".
