Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
The Book of Fables
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
The First Four Books of Poems
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
The Folding Cliffs
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375701516
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375701516
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.
Garden Time
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594991
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594991
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.
The Mays of Ventadorn
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Mays Of Ventadorn is a love song written to the winding path of history and the beauty of language.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Mays Of Ventadorn is a love song written to the winding path of history and the beauty of language.
The Essential W.S. Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.
The Lice
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594984
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594984
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force
The Miner's Pale Children
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Mask for Janus
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
ISBN: 9780300246384
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
ISBN: 9780300246384
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."
The Shadow of Sirius
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN: 9781852248543
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK. The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in his latest collection. 'I have only what I remember,' Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, well-cultivated loves, and 'our long evenings and astonishment'. In 'Photographer', Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a dumpcart by 'someone who understood'. In 'Empty Lot', Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How shall we mine our lives?
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN: 9781852248543
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK. The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in his latest collection. 'I have only what I remember,' Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, well-cultivated loves, and 'our long evenings and astonishment'. In 'Photographer', Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a dumpcart by 'someone who understood'. In 'Empty Lot', Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How shall we mine our lives?