Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970) “one of the finest novelists

“one of the finest novelists of her generation” ( The New York Times )

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give copies to your friends' (Liz)'Coates thinks more deeply and writes more clearly about the national tragedy and disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the legacy of White Supremacy than just about anyone

Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970) “one of the finest novelistsIn "Digging", the first poem in Opened Ground, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful of the potentially fatal power of language. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire