The Past
How Seamus Influenced Me
<p>Irish poet Seamus Heaney, whose <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/02/seamus-heaney-last-words-funeral" target="_blank">funeral Monday</a> drew hundreds of mourners, inspired U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey’s own calling—to grapple with the troubled history of the American South. Plus, tributes from <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/08/30/colum-mccann-seamus-heaney-brought-us-together.html">Colum McCann</a> and <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/08/30/paul-muldoon-on-seamus-heaney-the-mark-of-a-great-poet.html">Paul Muldoon</a>.</p>
Natasha Trethewey