"Seamus Heaney Was a Reluctant Radical"
"Heaney devoted a lifetime to such figurative bell ringing, pulleying the ropes in the hope of summoning a sky-clear music rather than the deafening thud of weighted sadness that often came in its stead. The 'strumming, rooted, long-tailed pull of grief,' the slow rain of wounded lives and slipping memories, seemed to accompany even the most buoyant of lyric epiphanies his verse conveyed."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Martin Mitchell on Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
"In a way, though, the mundanity of the real story gets at the heart of The World's Wife: throughout the book, our meticulous cultural inheritance—our gods, our legends, our myths, our grandest stories—are stripped of their sheen and recast on a smaller, human scale. The collection is comprised of a series of dramatic monologues from the perspectives of the women who have been sidelined, overlooked, omitted." |
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