20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966 - 1996
By Seamus Heaney
464 pages;
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Nobel laureate is regarded as the finest Irish poet since Yeats. His
rough-hewn work is steeped in rural life, family, aging, and loss.
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
