Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970) and how to pray to

and how to pray to the moon

Whether read as an existential tale

perhaps even sadder

includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions

Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970) and how to pray toIn "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