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Station Island by Seamus Heaney
Station Island by Seamus Heaney. 1985 FSG, first American edition, 123 pages, inscribed. Heaney was a Nobel-winning Irish poet. According to the New York Times, "The author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, as well as critical essays and works for the stage, he repeatedly explored the strife and uncertainties that have afflicted his homeland, while managing simultaneously to steer clear of polemic." Station was his sixth collection.
Condition: Jacket near fine, book VG, browning to front end paper. Inscribed by Heaney.
"I drink to you
in smoke-mirled, blue-black
polished sloes, bitter
and dependable."
Station Island by Seamus Heaney. 1985 FSG, first American edition, 123 pages, inscribed. Heaney was a Nobel-winning Irish poet. According to the New York Times, "The author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, as well as critical essays and works for the stage, he repeatedly explored the strife and uncertainties that have afflicted his homeland, while managing simultaneously to steer clear of polemic." Station was his sixth collection.
Condition: Jacket near fine, book VG, browning to front end paper. Inscribed by Heaney.
"I drink to you
in smoke-mirled, blue-black
polished sloes, bitter
and dependable."