The Gravel Walks

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First edition, one of 175 copies from a total edition of 195, labeled here as "0/0". This edition was printed by the Shadowy Waters Press, on the occasion of the annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region at Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. The edition comprises 175 numbered, unsigned copies; 10 "Artists Copies" numbered and signed by the author; and 10 copies of the unfolded, unbound sheets, numbered and signed by the author. Brandes & Durkan A52b. Hyung W. Kim, "15 Questions with Seamus Heaney", The Harvard Crimson, 8 October 2008. Square octavo, 8 pp. Original stitched grey wrappers, front cover lettered in black, uncut. A fine copy. Heaney recited the line "So walk on air against your better judgement" from this poem for his Nobel lecture, offering it as an instruction for himself and all who listened. The line is also the epitaph on Heaney's gravestone. Heaney has elaborated upon the importance of this poem: "My poetry on the whole was earth-hugging, but then I began to look up rather than keep down. I think it had to do with a sense that the marvelous was as permissible as the matter-of-fact in poetry. That line is from a poem called 'The Gravel Walks', which is about heavy work - wheeling barrows of gravel - but also the paradoxical sense of lightness when you're lifting heavy things. I like the in-betweenness of up and down, of being on the earth and of the heavens. I think that's where poetry should dwell, between the dream world and the given world, because you don't just want photography, and you don't want fantasy either" (Heaney, quoted in Kim). N° de ref. del artículo 100717

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