"But I’ll be honest: 'Digging' bored me when I first read it. Between me and Heaney’s clean cuts, there was a temperamental misalignment; I tend to prefer poems with a little muss and bedhead." —Elisa Gonzalez for The Yale Review

https://yalereview.org/article/elisa-gonzalez-searching-for-seamus-heaney

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Elisa Gonzalez: “Searching for Seamus Heaney"

What I found when I resolved to read the poet's work.

The Yale Review