Seamus Heaney in the House

I had to look twice at Seamus Heaney’s Top Ten Hip Hop Picks before deciding whether or not it was for real or, as the editors of Spoiled Ink might say, taking the piss out of readers. But I want it to be real, if only for saying that Ludacris “has journeyed deep into the valleys of language, searching for a more organic phoneticism. For this, all poets owe him a blessing.” What I want to know is, what does the Nobel Laureate think of the Wu-Tang?

8 January 2004 | poetry |