HEANEY, Seamus.

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A Keen for the Coins. First edition, signed limited issue, one of 100 copies signed by the author. This poem first appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Irish Pages, shortly after Ireland adopted the Euro. Heaney's verse commemorates his country's lost coinage, now only found "where the rainbow ends".This edition was published to commemorate Heaney's reading at Lenoir-Rhyne College on 6 October 2002, which opened "Seamus Heaney's Ars Poetica", an exhibition of his rare publications and manuscripts at the Hickory Museum of Art.

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