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FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter ∙ Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson ∙ The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera...
SWEENEY ASTRAY by Seamus Heaney; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 96 pages...
...Dublin paper once decided that he was the "bard of the bogs." Robert Lowell took the high road, designating him the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney (pronounced Hay-knee) finds very little comfort in either encomium. "The first annoys me," he grumbles. "The second makes me uncomfortable...
...summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet. "A verse of his described an old farmyard and talked about 'weeds...
LEHIGH (80)--Ron Gregory 4-6--14; Seamus Dowling 1-0--2; Paul Wickman 5-0--10; Mike Andorelewicz 5-1--11; Mike Poisha 9-3--21; Vernon McKay 0-0--0; Raymond Lee 2-0--4; Don Henderson 2-3--7; Joe Turocy 0-0--0; Doug Gaffiney 0-0--0, Turocy 32-16--80 Fouled Out; Gregory, Wcikman, Androlewcz, Henderson...