This collection of works by Seamus Heaney, particularly in the vivid and stunning twelve-line poems titled "Squarings," shows that he is ready to reconstruct experience and "credit the miracles." The titular poem, "Seeing Things," is typical of the entire book. It starts with memories of a real event, then moves toward the visionary, always maintaining the sense of textures and sensations of the world. Translations of Virgil and Homer offer a prologue and a coded expression, where the immediate expressions of previously implicit motifs manifest in extensive narratives. The journeys to underworlds and other worlds correspond to the journeys that poetic language itself makes. From the author of "The Haw Lantern," "Wintering Out," "Station Island," and "North." Pages: 128, Dimensions: 13.1x13.1cm