tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958055259578168553.post1102862933285576107..comments2023-05-07T09:49:46.055-04:00Comments on Wrecklamation: Seamus and MeWreaklamationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131707604045253934noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958055259578168553.post-51786684926427585382013-10-17T10:32:13.738-04:002013-10-17T10:32:13.738-04:00Col - didn't know if you were aware..............Col - didn't know if you were aware..............There will be a Tribute to Seamus Heaney at the LIMERICK pub in wheaton on November 14th @ 7:30 pm. Here's the ad : "Join us for a special evening celebrating the life and work of the man who has been called "the most important Irish poet since Yeats"."Patti Lalleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958055259578168553.post-61256524589577874242013-09-05T23:36:35.602-04:002013-09-05T23:36:35.602-04:00I saw your dress. The red one. I hope you have a g...I saw your dress. The red one. I hope you have a great time. I've never been to a UD reunion. Missed my tenth and my fifteenth. I keep having babies. :)<br /><br />Now I kind of want to write a blog post on this poem. <br /><br />I saw a critique of Heaney the other day (from someone who obviously never heard that you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead) who started off with a fair enough claim that no one he knew could recall off the top of their head a single line by Heaney. I have to confess much as I love his work, I don't find myself remembering many of his lines. When I went to write my own reflection after I heard the news of his death I had to page through books and books and books looking at poems I knew I'd read dozens of times and still couldn't find one I knew by heart. This though I spent a considerable amount of time reading him in grad school. He's powerful, but somehow not terribly quotable. He creates images but somehow his words don't stick in my head the way other poets' do. Unfortunately they proceeded from that insight to conclude that therefore Heaney is overrated and the esteem in which he has been held is all political in nature. <br />Melanie Bettinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12557248434888642114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958055259578168553.post-69405654158879147642013-09-04T00:37:47.638-04:002013-09-04T00:37:47.638-04:00Melanie -- I will have to look up Chukwu too. I d...Melanie -- I will have to look up Chukwu too. I did investigate Donatus Nwoga -- it appears that he may have taught at Queens University in Belfast when Heaney was there. I just love his name: Donatus. My husband is getting prepared to read (in his best Scranton accent) "A Dog Was Crying To-Night in Wicklow Also" to my father who will arrive tomorrow. It should be 'interesting'.<br /><br />I didn't know you were reading -- thanks! I'm getting ready to go to Irving for my 25th (!!!!) reunion. It should be fun -- everyone is getting excited. :-)Wreaklamationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131707604045253934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958055259578168553.post-48542635625207891992013-09-03T11:39:25.128-04:002013-09-03T11:39:25.128-04:00Oh yes. All this. It sounds so much like my journe...Oh yes. All this. It sounds so much like my journey with Seamus. I love both of those poems and thank you for reminding me about A Dog Was Crying To-night in Wicklow Also. I just read it to the kids. And then finally looked up Chukwu.Melanie Bettinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12557248434888642114noreply@blogger.com