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...Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests. /I'll dig with it." With these final words, the poem "Digging" began 1995 Nobel Prize winner and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney's first collection of poems (Death of a Naturalist) in 1966, inaugurating an entire corpus of work that resonates majestically with themes of searching, wandering and exploring ever downward and inward. Each of his collections of poetry, while encompassing individually different personal, historical, social and political modes, echoes with similar thematic and imagistic ideas. Until now, there really was no comprehensive retrospective of Heaney's work...
...mean that the newly and rarely anthologized works contained in Opened Ground are detrimental to the essential oeuvre of Heaney's work, previously established within a mythical, symbolic, and imagistic framework? Hardly. Rather, Heaney is saying with his title and the anthology it names that his life as a poet is in no way complete, his digging but only begun. The fans of this miraculous wordsmith have a lot more in store to enjoy...
Sappho, the famous ancient Greek lesbian poet, is coming to Newton. Really. Well, she'll be represented by local composer Patricia Van Ness, who will present a talk entitled "Sappho, Beauty and Medieval Music Devices: Composing a Premiere for Full Chorus and Soprano Solo." 2 p.m., Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St. 499-4868. FREE...
...formal, but simple, idiom of his father's relatives. "Scullions," according to Heaney, had just as much right to Beowulf as the Early English Text Society. After all, the geographically-defined "England" does not exclusively own what is called the English language. Though he is considered an Irish poet, Heaney's medium is exactly that language which is not contained by national boundaries...
...Irish poet's project to revive Anglo-Saxon for today's audiences, however, is not just another indulgence of "ethnic swank," he says. Because, 0 as he argued in one of the Wednesday "Talking Shop" discussions, "The English tongue is something that's grown beyond the nation." English speakers who are not English nationals can claim the poem as part of their linguistic genealogy as legitimately as those who carry English passports, he argued...