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  <default-description>Seamus Heaney was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements. Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, &quot;Station Island,&quot; as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S.  </default-description>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a very select audience, this documentation of 21 years of Seamus Heaney's poetry career will be an enjoyable and cathartic journey through Ireland and its culture.<br/><br/>As a retrospective of what is now the first half of Seamus Heaney’s poetry career, New Selected Poems: 1966-1987 (Faber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71455560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mid-term Break<br/>  	<br/>I sat all morning in the college sick bay<br/>Counting bells knelling classes to a close,<br/>At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.<br/><br/>In the porch I met my father crying--<br/>He had always taken funerals in his stride--<br/>And Big Jim Evans saying it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27713628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;In the nineteen forties, when I was the eldest child of an ever-growing family in rural Co. Derry, we crowded together in the three rooms of a traditional thatched farmstead and lived a kind of den-life which was more or less emotionally and intellectually proofed against the outside world. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27686023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A &quot;Greatest Hits&quot; volume of the Nobel laureate's poems.  An excellent companion is his interview in Poetry Dec 2008 where he notes how a poet is born, nurtured, influenced, developed, made his own mature writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I notice there is nothing in between not like and like it on the rating apparatus. This is a problem with ol' Seamus for while I didn't hate the poems (and I've been known to cry with white hot hatred over poetry I quibble with) I honestly cannot remember a single one. I know Ireland was mentioned, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4140612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic Irish poet!  Nothing really fluffy, very down-to-earth and concrete.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[trying out this ol poetry number. not sure but sure?]]></body>
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