Identity
Seamus Heaney (An Seanmhullach, Derry, 1939 – Dublin, 2013) was born in a Republican family in Northern Ireland. English imperialism, that oppression, included it forever on the list of Irish nationalist writers. Like many other writers on the island, he lived during the century of the disease: “An Irish poet has a direction to the English literary tradition by using the English language, but it will hardly feel at home.”
His first book of poems was Death of a Naturalist (1966), and by then they had already created a literary atmosphere in Belfast, peppered with a political atmosphere: “It wasn’t my obligation, but it was my problem.” Moved from 1972 to the south, there flourished an authentic poetry with roots in the north and wings throughout the world, which plays without giving up politics with lyricism, confusing the mystery and the symbol with reality. The Bible of this flowering was North (1975): “Material for an old mill,/ And I saw it with my heart eyes/ A global stone ash in balance,/ Stones stacked as vertebral bones,/ Ground crushed bone marrow.” And it seemed to me that Xabi Borda has made a strong and fine translation, as rich as effective.
And I think this book is going to be enjoyed by those who know how to enjoy the gifts of nature every day, whether it's the green of the grass, the seal of the earth, and those who seek a connection with our well-being, with our problems.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. As Beñat Sarasola points out in his foreword, he was one of the largest poets of the last century. But Seamus Heaney was already one of the great ones in his country. “Where the serene water/ The Neagh River overflowed in the course of the lake/ As if it had reached a plain bank of the world/ And it was shining/ in the incessant present of the Bann”. The new metaphors of Seamus Heaney are also ancient, they have their origin in myth, they are classically Celtic in their Roman forms. Maybe that's why you think you're reading a friend's book for the first time. At first it's naive, then you're going to start distinguishing the inlineates.
Finally, you will wonder how, being from Derry, he knows so many things about Euskal Herria. n
CORRECT ERRORS: Last week a wrong picture of the author was published in this section: Pierre Bordazarre “Etxahun” by Iruri was the photo. Pierre Topet needed a barkoxtarra “Etxahun”.
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