Shelfari edited the description of The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987 Friday, July 31 2009.
Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the rights of poetic utterance. The author asks whether the voice of the poet should be governed, or whether it should be the governor.
Shelfari edited the contributors of The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987 Friday, July 24 2009.