Seeing Things

"Seeing Things" (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in "The New York Times Book Review," "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the "Aeneid" and the "Inferno," this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.