political poetry
Book Review: The King of the Cats Returns — Seamus Heaney’s Complete Poems and the Poetry of Justice
In a monumental new gathering of his work, the Nobel laureate’s poems—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remain a moral force in a newly fraught moment.
Many of the poems live up to the title’s shout-out to Walt Whitman, cutting through the current political miasma with fresh wit, insight, and lyrical outrage.
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