Volume 35, Number 7 · April 28, 1988
Second Thoughts
By Helen Vendler
The Haw Lantern
by Seamus Heaney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 51 pp., $12.95
Here are thirty-two new poems by Seamus Heaney—the yield since Station Island (1985). Heaney is a poet of abundance who is undergoing in middle age the experience of natural loss. As the earth loses for him the mass and gravity of familiar presences—parents and friends taken by death—desiccation and weightlessness threaten the former fullness of the sensual life.
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