Word: heaneys
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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney awarded the Harvard Review prize on Friday to Heather McHugh '69 for her book of poetry, Hinge & Sign...
Probably the recent poets I love most are James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney. I learned a great deal from reading Merrill's poems; his is the influence I feel I must continually guard myself against, since I so completely love his poems. He said that the closet just disintegrated around him--that was a source of hope for me, especially since I already felt a natural affiniity for his voice and style. More so than with, say, Rich or Ginsberg, other gay poets...
...expressions. To make matters worse, he lacked answers to many of the group's questions and bristled when asked why he hadn't resigned after having broken his promise to the financial community. "Everyone's been yelling and screaming all year for the peso to be devalued," says Kathleen Heaney, head of Latin American equity research at Bankers Trust. "But the way it was done really freaked people out. Wall Street doesn't like surprises. You get penalized when you do that...
...prize Harvard actually came closest to this year, the Nobel for literature, is the one it has never won. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric Seamus Heaney, a poet, was considered a top contender for the award...
...Heaney has been cursed for 'keeping his distance,'" Waters said. "But this distance has given him the perspective to see what is going on; he has become the witness to the suffering of his people...