THE SPIRIT LEVEL

The latest volume of free verse poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature draws on myth and unique aspects of the Irish experience as it celebrates the challenge of "keeping going." Heaney, blessed with an Irish baritone, reads his poems with quiet passion, letting the words do their work and play. Although Heaney announces the title of each poem, the packaging offers no documentation or even a list of the poems in the program. P.B.J. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: MAR/APR 98]