{"product_id":"heaney-district-circle","title":"District and Circle","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\" class=\"\"\u003e\"District and Circle offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eIn this powerful collection,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney traverses the distance between a rustic past and a menaced future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e The journey begins \"in an age of bare hands and cast iron\"—rooted in the tactile memories of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II—and concludes with the clinical clunk of an automatic lock in an eerie,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e twenty-first-century world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThrough poems of visionary clarity,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Heaney assays the weight of memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Familiar artifacts of rural life—railway sleepers,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e sledgehammers,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e and the \"heavyweight silence\" of cattle—stand alongside the anxieties of the contemporary era,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e from the transit of the London Underground to the environmental haunting of melting glaciers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eFeaturing a compelling mix of lyric verse,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e prose poems,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e and translations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"74\" class=\"\"\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e finds the poet standing his ground in the \"hiding places of love and excited language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\" In acclaimed sequences like \"The Tollund Man in Springtime,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\" Heaney transforms the gravity of a memorial into the grace of recollection,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e proving that even in a dangerous present,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e there is a mystery to be found in everyday renewals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39664461611093,"sku":"9780571279418N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/71W-CyeJ1JL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776359410","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/heaney-district-circle","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}