Book is 81 pp. At least three poems in it ("The Border Campaign," "The Fragment," and "On His Work in the English Tongue") form continued responses to Beowulf and to Heaney's engagement with it as a translator.

This poem of 11 lines begins:

               "Light came from the east," he sang,
"Bright guarantee of God, and the waves went quiet.
I could see headlands and buffeted cliffs. (70)

And ends:

                             "Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?" (70)

The opening lines of the poem closely follow Heaney's rendering of ll. 569-73 of Beowulf in his 1999 full translation.

Not in MO2.

BAM (from 1st U.S. edition, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).