District and Circle.

HEANEY, Seamus.

Item Number: 138149

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charlotte Strick. Author photograph by Keith Barnes.

"A book as original , startling and aesthetically compelling as any since his magisterial 1984 sequence, Station Island" (The Washington Post Book World). "[Heaney's] voice carries the authenticity and believability of the plainspoken--even though (herein his magic) his words are anything but plainspoken. His stanzas are dense echo chambers of contending nuances and ricocheting sounds. And his is the gift of saying something extraordinary while, line by line, conveying a sense that this is something an ordinary person might actually say" (Brad Leithauser, The New York Times Book Review).