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.

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.

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.

Unframed Originals

Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640093478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges 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. "This book is superbly written, offering deep glimpses into the complexities and mysteries of family bonds, with just that distancing from people and events necessary for artistic control."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

Sun at Midnight

Author: Musō Soseki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

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.

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

The Poem Forest: Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch

Author: Carrie Fountain
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536211265
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
All his life, William Stanley searched for a wild place of his own. Growing up in the straightened-out city blocks of his childhood and finding some respite in summer trips to a cabin in the woods, William Stanley yearned for space, fragrant soil, tall trees, and the silence that surrounds them. In Hawaii, he learned of acres of land depleted from toxic agricultural practices, and he became determined to restore that land and create one of the most comprehensive palm gardens in the world.

The Moon Before Morning

Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594533
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Selected Translations

Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594373
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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