THE BURIAL AT THEBES by Seamus Heaney - 1st/1st Signed

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JUNK is stuff you throw away........ STUFF is junk you keep." 6norm6 THE BURIAL AT THEBES by Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2004 First American Printing Seamus Heaney reworks Sophocles' struggle between principle and pragmatism to great effect in The Burial at Thebes. Updating this classic would be an unenviable task, and when the famed Abbey Theatre of Ireland asked Seamus Heaney to provide a new translation for their centenary, he was skeptical. " How many Antigones could Irish theatre put up with?" he thought. But George Bush was beating the drums of war in early 2003, and Nobel Prize winning Heaney was finding new and urgent relevance in the play. His foreshortened translation of Sophocles Antigone, titled The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles Antigone , is faithful and yet not slavish; instead it is a fresh and uncomplicated translation that does away with the cobwebs and the caked dust, and instills new vigor to a tragedy about a rebellious woman and her head-strong tyrant uncle. In the end it serves to teach timely and important lessons on wisdom, individual rights, and maybe some geo-politics.Contemporary parallels to the play shine slyly in the thick of this doom and gloom family tragedy: namely the clash between the individual and the state -- an always tricky dichotomy that has never been fully resolved, and often enough, with catastrophic consequences, the resolution lands like a spiked cudgel on the weak, tender, and singular. Red boards / spine with gilt lettering. 8vo. 79pp. No remainder marks. Unclipped dust wrapper; $18.00 Signed by author on title page CONDITION: FINE / NEAR FINE Source (publisher ) EAS (Electronic article surveillance) anti-theft sticker on front past down, otherwise text block and binding are clean, square, bright and tight. Dust wrapper encased in a new archive quality Brodart mylar cover. SEAMUS HEANEY (1939- ) was born in Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He earned a teacher's certificate in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast and in 1963 took a position as a lecturer in English at that school. While at St. Joseph's he began to write, joining a poetry workshop with Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, and others under the guidance of Philip Hobsbaum. In 1965 he married Marie Devlin, and the following year he published Death of a Naturalist. Since then he has published hundreds more, in such collections as Human Chain (2010) , District and Circle (2006) , Opened Ground (1999) , which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Spirit Level (1996) ; Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990) ; and Sweeney Astray (1984) . He has also written several volumes of criticism, including The Redress of Poetry (1995) . Heaney's translation of Beowulf (2000) , which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He is also co-translator, with Stanislaw Baranczak, of Laments: Poems of Jan Kochanowski (1995) , and co-author, with Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott, of a collection of essays entitled Homage to Robert Frost (1996) .Seamus Heaney is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. Heaney has been a resident of Dublin since 1976, but since 1981 he has spent part of each year teaching at Harvard University, where in 1984 he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The author was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past". PAYMENT OPTIONS: CREDIT CARDS: PayPal PayPal Payment Email: BallisticProse Trading Company 1834 Chickasaw Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041 read more

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