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100			_aHeaney, Seamus _94965
222			_aGeneral collection
245			_aHuman chain _bSeamus heaney
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aLondon: _bFaber and Faber, _cc2010.
300			_a85p. : _c20cm.
520			_aSeamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the 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, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other 'hermit songs' which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s adolescence to the birth of the poet's first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours and family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.
650			_aGeneral collection english _95250
650			_aEnglish poetry _95251
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