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Author: William Stanley Merwin
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556595134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Merwin has created a special voice, unique in all of American poetry. It comes through in this selection Merwin has made from 10 of his previous books, beginning with "A Mask for Janus" and ending with "Opening the Hand." Other selections include "Lemuel's Blessing," "Air," "The River Bees," and "Fly." In "The Coin," considered to be one of his best poems, Merwin re-creates an entire fair, depicting tents, animals, flowers, and three turtledoves with a coin in the grain at the bottom of their cage. ISBN 0-689-11970-4: $22.95.
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556594991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.
Author: Michael Wutz
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1626746192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, his extraordinary work as a translator, as well as his decades-long interest in environmental conservation. Anticipating the current sustainability movement and the debates surrounding major and minor literatures, Merwin was, and still is, a visionary. At age eighty-eight, he is among the most distinguished poets, translators, and thinkers in the United States. A major link between the period of literary modernism and its contemporary extensions, Merwin has been a force in American letters for many decades, and his translations from the Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and other languages, have earned him unanimous praise and admiration. Merwin also wrote at the forefront of literature's environmental advocacy and early on articulated concerns about ecology and sustainability. Now, for the first time, Conversations with W. S. Merwin offers insight into the various dimensions of Merwin's thought by treating his interviews as a self-standing category in his oeuvre. More than casual narratives that interpret the occasional poem or relay an occasional experience, they afford literary and cultural historians a view into the larger through-lines of Merwin's thinking.
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 161902814X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer."
Author: William Stanley Merwin
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556594540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In luscious and purposeful language, W.S. Merwin’s new poems examine our essential relationships with the natural world.
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781852248543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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?
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556594984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1988-03-12
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0394758587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch). A literary event—a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry—The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his Opening the Hand. Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem—so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as The Lice, The Moving Target and (most recently) Opening the Hand, he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech. Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.
Author: Musō Soseki
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556594397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Out of print for two decades and reissued in this updated edition, Sun at Midnight is the first translation into English of the work of Muso Soseki, a Zen roshi of the fourteenth century and father of what we now think of as the Zen rock garden. These sublime translations reveal W.S. Merwin's own resources as a gardener; the heart of both his and Soseki's endeavors can be seen with clarity through these inspiring poems and letters. Intensely lyric and rich with the concrete details of sight, sound, and scent, deeply immersed in the great philosophical questions, the work is transformative and full-spectrum. From a telling smile and handshake in "the one wind" to "something beyond happiness / inside the gate / of this mountain," the infinity in a moment can be found everywhere. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world For a person of Zen no limits exist The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small Book jacket.
