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Human Chain
Human Chain: Poems | Seamus Heaney
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A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered presentthe stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems that stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other "hermit songs" that weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled "Route 101" plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of a first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the deadfriends, neighbors, familythat is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also includes a poetic "herbal" adapted from the Breton poet Guilleviclyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things and landscapes that exclude human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included.
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GingerAntics
Human Chain: Poems | Seamus Heaney
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I got some Inauguration Day themed book mail today (usps really did deliver on a Sunday! Who knew?!), and I‘m so excited to have these in my budding new collection. Field Work was one of my favourites from last year. I can‘t wait to check out the tagged book and Opened Ground.
@CBee this is literal Joetry (unless he actually wrote some, but I think he‘s a little busy right now). #SeamusHeaney #FieldWork #HumanChain #OpenedGround #Joetry2021

CBee Thanks for tagging me! Yep, I‘d say President Joe is pretty swamped at moment 😂😳 4y
GingerAntics @CBee poor guy. I shall read the poetry for him!!! 4y
CBee @GingerAntics lovely idea! ♥️😁 4y
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TheBookHippie Unrelated but I can‘t find original discussion back here‘s an interesting article about tHat awful 1776 https://www.patreon.com/posts/sigh-1776-report-46624135 4y
GingerAntics @CBee although, somehow, I can imagine Jill reading it to him while he‘s getting ready for bed or something. He won‘t get as much as he has been getting, but he‘ll get some. 4y
CBee @GingerAntics I can totally imagine that too! How sweet would that be ♥️ 4y
GingerAntics @CBee right?! They‘re so sweet!!! It‘s so nice having a couple in the White House that like each other again. 4y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I‘m reading what historians have to say about this report. I sort of wish I could get my hands on a copy, but then I kind of don‘t. I hope it‘s deleted off of every server in the world and any printed copies are burned. 4y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I believe it‘s out there 😩 4y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I‘m sure it is, but probably only in places that were already teaching this BS anyway. 4y
Chrissyreadit Again, late to the conversation- but that article is amazing @TheBookHippie I need to memorize sections of it to use- and that would have been helpful in some conversations here on Litsy. 4y
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Adriannagab
Human Chain: Poems | Seamus Heaney
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Thank you so much @PatienceFortitude !! I really liked everything especially the mixtape it was a really unique idea can‘t wait to listen to it! 🤗. Thanks again for hosting @LazyDays 📚 ✨

TrishB Cool 👍🏻 6y
LazyDays What a great package!💗💗 the mixed tape is such a great idea🙌🙌 6y
PatienceFortitude Glad you got everything and I hope you enjoy what I put together! I had fun! 6y
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Bookwomble
Human Chain: Poems | Seamus Heaney
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"Southampton bookshop enlists human chain to move to new store.

"More than 2,000 books carried by volunteers to October Books‘ new premises.

“There is something about radical bookshops, especially long-established ones like October Books. They have a special place in the hearts of local people."

How cool ?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/29/southampton-bookshop-october-boo...

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Wow!! How awesome!! 6y
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