Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1998 • FSG norah ephron "time was cheap and everlasting

"time was cheap and everlasting and one could say it all in 2

braiding together the strands of the shared past

Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action

each with his or her own reason for daring the unknown torments and temptations of the mansion

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1998 • FSG norah ephron "time was cheap and everlastingOpened Ground: Selected Poems 1966 1996 by Seamus Heaney FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1998] FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1st FSG Trade Paperback Printing. Trade paperback in very good condition. Shelf wear and some tanning to wraps of cover. Reads like new. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire consequences of speaking one's mind. Indeed, during