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How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey

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Irish poet Seamus Heaney, whose funeral Monday 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 Colum McCann and Paul Muldoon.

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