A poem in this collection opens by describing how the "salt off the sea whets / the blades of four winds" and depicts another author with "a hard pen scraping in his head". In another of its poems, the speaker claims that "I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing" and notes that "As a child, they could not keep me from wells". A third poem from this collection laments the appearance of "a rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache" and describes "palms sticky as Bluebeard's." "Synge on Aran" and "Personal Helicon" were published in this collection, whose title poem describes how the speaker "sickened, turned, and ran" after seeing that "the great slime kings / were gathered there for vengeance." The lines "between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests" appear in the first and last stanzas of a poem in this collection that includes the line "By god, the old man could handle a spade." For 10 points, "Digging" was published in what first major collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney?
A poem in this collection opens by describing how the "salt off the sea whets / the blades of four winds" and depicts another author with "a hard pen scraping in his head". In another of its poems, the speaker claims that "I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing" and notes that "As a child, they could not keep me from wells". A third poem from this collection laments the appearance of "a rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache" and describes "palms sticky as Bluebeard's." "Synge on Aran" and "Personal Helicon" were published in this collection, whose title poem describes how the speaker "sickened, turned, and ran" after seeing that "the great slime kings / were gathered there for vengeance." The lines "between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests" appear in the first and last stanzas of a poem in this collection that includes the line "By god, the old man could handle a spade." For 10 points, "Digging" was published in what first major collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney?
A poem in this collection opens by describing how the "salt off the sea whets / the blades of four winds" and depicts another author with "a hard pen scraping in his head".
Death of a Naturalist