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An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree

Penultimate collection by one of America's leading poets finds him, written in his mid-80s, reflecting on time and memory. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

W.S. Merwin's final book, brimming with longing, loss, and unanswerable questions.

A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

Der Schatten des Sirius, etwas, das niemand gesehen hat, ist, wie Merwin in einem Inter­view sagte, "reine Metapher, reine Imagination". Wir selbst sind dieser Schatten, hinter der sichtbaren Welt liegt das, was nicht sichtbar, nicht zu wissen ist. Das Unbekannte ist es, das unser Leben lenkt, und es ist die Aufgabe der Dichtung, sich diesem Unbekannten anzunä­hern, ohne es je zu erreichen, "zu sagen, was unsagbar ist - Liebe, Kum­­­mer, Zorn ...

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The Mays Of Ventadorn is a love song written to the winding path of history and the beauty of language.

In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins. Unframed Originals brings the reader ...

Merwin has gathered eight essays--including a memoir of George Kirstein, publisher of "The Nation, " and one of Sydney Parkinson, explorer, naturalist and artist on Captain James Cook's "Endeavour"--that show the breadth of his imagination and sympathy.

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Selected Translations is the crowning achievement for one of the world's greatest and most prolific translators of poetry. Absolutely essential.

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

W.S. Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. This new collection written in his late-80s finds him deeply immersed in reflection on the passage of time and the frailty and sustaining power of memory.

In luscious and purposeful language, W.S. Merwin's new poems examine our essential relationships with the natural world.

An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree

Selected Translations is the crowning achievement for one of the world's greatest and most prolific translators of poetry. Absolutely essential.

In The Lost Upland, W. S. Merwin vividly conveys his intimate knowledge of the people and the countryside in this ancient part of France (home of the Lascaux caves). In three narratives of small-town life, Merwin shows with matchless poetic and narrative power how the past is still palpably present.On its original publication in 1992 Jane Kramer wrote, "These stories are a gift from one of the great poets of the English language, a chronicle o...

W. S. Merwin is widely acknowledged as one of the finest living poets in English. Less well known is the power and range of his work in prose. For his first new prose collection in more than ten years, The Ends of the Earth, Merwin has gathered eight essays that show the breadth of his imagination and sympathy. A memoir of George Kirstein, publisher of "The Nation, " stands alongside one of Sydney Parkinson, explorer, naturalist and artist on ...