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...Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests. /I'll dig with it." With these final words, the poem "Digging" began 1995 Nobel Prize winner and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney's first collection of poems (Death of a Naturalist) in 1966, inaugurating an entire corpus of work that resonates majestically with themes of searching, wandering and exploring ever downward and inward. Each of his collections of poetry, while encompassing individually different personal, historical, social and political modes, echoes with similar thematic and imagistic ideas. Until now, there really was no comprehensive retrospective of Heaney's work...
After a few days, the men decided to introducethemselves to their new pen-pals...
...didn't reinstate my membership, now I'mupset," he said. "It will not encourage me to jointhough--they're throwing pen...
...acting governor also took up the Curley's cause in his annual crusade to reinstate the death penalty in the Commonwealth. The bill was narrowly defeated by an 80 to 80 vote in the State House last November in its last step before reaching Cellucci's eager pen...
...astonished by Melissa Crocker's "Editorial Notebook" (Sept. 21) on the honorary degree ceremony arranged for Nelson Mandela. One has to wonder at the impulse which drove her to pen such a peevish piece. I would with no hesitation place Mandela among the most extraordinary figures of the twentieth century...