Human Chain by Seamus Heaney Dunya Mikhail between cultures and between human

between cultures and between human beings and our brains

" —Álvaro Valverde

and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our plundered hearts

’ – Dwight Garner

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney Dunya Mikhail between cultures and between humanSeamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand