
Electric Light
A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf.
In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air
That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold
In the everything flows and steady go of the world.
--from "Perch"
Seamus Heaney''s new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet''s childhood: rural electrificatio...
A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf.
In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air
That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold
In the everything flows and steady go of the world.
--from "Perch"
Seamus Heaney''s new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet''s childhood: rural electrificatio...