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Seamus Heaney's American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of
correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years
that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher,
lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the
reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney's appointments at
Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaney's readings "on the
road" at three important points in his career. It argues that
Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while
his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance
and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower,
especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes
"the heard Heaney" as much as the "writerly Heaney" by listening in
on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but
unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It
includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets,
who testify to his mentoring as well as modeling for them how one
can be "a poet in the world" as he was most strikingly.
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