{"id":434,"date":"2015-10-15T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?page_id=434"},"modified":"2015-11-01T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:01:11","slug":"points-favourite-poets-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/points-favourite-poets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poetry from more than 50 countries!<\/span><\/p>\n

V\u00edctor Ram\u00edrez Nu\u00f1ez, Cuba<\/p>\n

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Indisciplines<\/p>\n

what does the peasant
\nright in the middle of a furrow
\nweeds no longer relevant
\nfacing the freeway
\n\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026where cars hum
\nfor a moment head-raised want to tell you?
\nthat it\u2019s rained and the corn is coming up strong this year?<\/p>\n

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that the sun\u2019s yolk
\nhas just burst the horizon
\nstarry with palms and agave flowers?
\nthat work is hard
\nand you won\u2019t write about all this?
\ntulips glimmer
\nonly proof the sun survives<\/p>\n

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leaves aren\u2019t tame
\nthey turned to glass in the night
\nwhen the workers cut the grass
\nwho knows where they look
\nthe sun wins the bet
\noverflows the trumpet tree tops
\nunder the bridge the landscape<\/p>\n

V\u00edctor Rodr\u00edguez Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n

\u00a9Translation: Katherine M. Hedeen ***<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Seamus Justin Heaney, 13 April 1939\u2013 30 August 2013) was one of the most important Irish modern poets, playwright, translator and lecturer and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Heaney was a professor at Harvard and at a professor of poetry at Oxford.
\nFaber and Faber published Death of a Naturalist. This volume earned him numerous prizes, such as the E..C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award in 1967, the Somerset Maugham Award in 1968, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His second volume, Door into the Dark, was published in 1969 and became the Poetry Book Society Choice for the year.
\nIn 1970-71 he was a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Northern Ireland in 1971, resigned in 1972 his lecturship. and published Wintering Out.
\nIn 1965, in connection with the Belfast Festival, he published Eleven Poems. In 1979 he published Field Work and in 1980, Selected Poems and Preoccupations: Selected Prose. Heaney’s collection, Seeing Things, published in 1991, contains many poems for his father.
\nPerhaps his most moving works are the series of sonnets called “Clearances,” written as a memorial to his mother. Heaney’s poetry is filled with images of death and yet it is also firmly rooted in the life of this world.
\nHis death, the 30th August 2013, has been a great loss for modern Irish poetry. His books sell by the tens of thousands. His death the 30th August 2013 has been a great loss for modern Irish poetry.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Other poets selected by POINT Editions Click on a name to read their poems.<\/p>\n