Bogland Variations

Seamus Heaney's poem, Bogland (1969), describes digging the bog and the visceral sense of a connection to history that evokes. It also contrasts the landscapes of America and Ireland, both intimately familiar to me, and reflecting my own transatlantic relocation. The first line of the poem, "We Have No Prairies" is debossed into the paper, the wet pulp embedded with crushed bog earth and other organic materials.