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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374521097
ISBN: 0374521093
Label: Noonday Press
Manufacturer: Noonday Press
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1989-02
Publisher: Noonday Press
Sales Rank: 789669
Studio: Noonday Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Poems exploring the theme of loss are joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein which will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.
Amazon.com Review:
Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as 'small light for small people' but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: 'I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it all.' The Haw Lantern won England's Whitbread Prize in 1987.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The Bittersweetness of Decay
The Haw Lantern
By Seamus Heaney
New York: The Noonday Press, 1987
52 pages
First, let us look at a simple, web-based definition of clearance, from
http://www.answers.com/topic/clearance:
The act or process of clearing.
A space cleared; a clearing.
The amount of space or distance by which a moving object clears something.
The height or width of a passage: an underpass with a 13-foot clearance. ... Read More
Rating: - A great volume
Another masterpiece by the great poet. The sequence concerning the death of poet's mother is extraordinarily moving.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374521097
ISBN: 0374521093
Label: Noonday Press
Manufacturer: Noonday Press
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1989-02
Publisher: Noonday Press
Sales Rank: 789669
Studio: Noonday Press