Opened Ground. Selected Poems 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, 1999. First American Paperback Edition. Pp, 443. A nice bright copy in pictorial wrappers, with some plastic bubbling to front wrapper.

This copy signed and dated by the author with a nice presentation inscription to Jim Weighart, ( Journalist and later staff director for American Politician, Ted Kennedy).

Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems.