Five Letters from Seamus Heaney - The Paris Review
Briefly

Matthew's letter jolted me. ... The total engagement of those poems is exhausting and beautiful because of the total candor and the unleashed, justified anger.
I was deeply moved to find 'The Earthenware Head' again, a poem which had stayed in me from the moment I read it years ago. But I was quite unprepared for the agon(y) of 'Black Coat' and 'The God'–like a 'Prelude' turned inside out.
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