An introduction: perennial tensions -- The poet and the national literature -- Poet under occupation, 1964-1971 -- Poet of national liberation, 1971-1986 -- To survive in the world: writing the deep present and the deep past, 1986-1993 -- Who am I without exile? anxieties of renewal and a national late style, 1995-2008 -- Parting words: the poet appropriates contingency -- Postscript. |