HEANEY, Seamus Seeing Things London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
8vo., pale blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; in the original publisher's dustwrapper, showing an illustration from the Gundestrup Cauldron; textured beige endpapers; pp. [x], 113, [v]; save for mild compression to foot of spine, a fine copy; in near-fine jacket slightly sunned at the backstrip, a little crushed to foot.
First edition, signed by the poet in black ink to the title page.
A collection of poems written after the death of the poet's father, Patrick, in 1986. Inspired by the visions of the afterlife portrayed by Virgil and Dante Alighieri, the title refers to the solid, fluctuating world of objects in comparison to the haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination.
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