<div>As selected by the author, <i>Opened Ground</i> includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, <i>The Cure at Troy</i> and <i>Sweeney Astray</i>, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, <i>The New Yorker</i>)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."<br></div> <div>As selected by the author, <i>Opened Ground</i> includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, <i>The Cure at Troy</i> and <i>Sweeney Astray</i>, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, <i>The New Yorker</i>)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."<br></div>