Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 by Heaney, Seamus. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374154967.

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaneys career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from the poets three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaneys finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."