Author: W. S. Merwin Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 161902814X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 143
Book Description
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 Publisher: National Geographic Society ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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."
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: 
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: W. S. Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: William Stanley Merwin