The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

Garden Time

Garden Time PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594991
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.

The Essential W.S. Merwin

The Essential W.S. Merwin PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.

The Book of Fables

The Book of Fables PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Book Description
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.

The Lice

The Lice PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594984
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force

The Folding Cliffs

The Folding Cliffs PDF Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375701516
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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.

The Mays of Ventadorn

The Mays of Ventadorn PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
Poet W. S. Merwin interweaves his own reminiscences with, "a chronicle of the lordly 12th-century bards who once ruled a world where kings were poets and poets kings."

Present Company

Present Company PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
New genius work from W.S. Merwin, considered "one of America's greatest living poets." -Washington Post

East Window

East Window PDF Author:
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556590911
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Book Description
Translations of Asian poetry by one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

The Shadow of Sirius

The Shadow of Sirius PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN: 9781852248543
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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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?