Seamus

 The first  book of Seamus Heaney’s I ever purchased was Sweeney Astray at a used bookstore in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. That was in October 1986. Since then I have purchased and read many, many other books of his poetry and prose. I treasure each and every one. By the time Heaney published Sweeny Astray in 1983, he had already written Read more