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Article: Nobel poet likes to speak out; Seamus Heaney says that poetry should be heard.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 9, 1996
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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, who is at the forefront of Ireland's recent literary renaissance, will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Guthrie Theatre. Heaney is often compared to William Butler Yeats, the last Irish poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1923).
Heaney is this year's Global Voices lecturer, a series sponsored by the Guthrie, which has featured such speakers as Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes and Nadine Gordimer. The author of 26 books, Heaney lives in Dublin but teaches part of each year at Harvard University. The Star Tribune interviewed him by telephone at his Harvard office about what life is like after winning the Nobel last ...