| Description |
xii, 121 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Homecoming -- By the front door -- Dew light -- Theft of morning -- Young man picking flowers -- White-eye -- From the gray legends -- Footholds -- Beginners -- Offering -- One day moth -- The color they come to -- Looking up in the garden -- High fronds -- Garden notes -- Coming of age -- A step at a time -- Another to echo -- Among the shadows at home -- The eternal return -- Summer sky -- A breeze at noon -- The new song -- The green fence -- Only sparrows -- Cancellation -- Relics -- The headboard -- Ferries -- The river one summer day -- By the allegheny -- Widnoon -- The gloaming -- On a distant shore -- Alba -- Can palat -- Still -- Forgotten fountain -- Threshing time -- After the voices -- Long afternoon light -- Old breadhouse -- Running in the dark -- The bell of one morning -- Elegy for a walnut tree -- Clear sound -- Garden music -- Time in the grass -- Before midsummer above the river -- Old plum tree -- Uricophilia -- Neither here nor there -- The palaces -- Ancient world -- Rule of thumb -- One summer -- Choosing -- The latest thing -- White on white -- Above the purple gorge -- Mr Daley -- Weinrich's hand -- Antique sound -- Telephone ringing -- The artisan world -- Wild oats -- How it happens -- The wonder of the imperfect -- Convenience -- Duo as the light Is going -- Natural history of forgetting -- Unknown soldier -- Lear's wife -- Identity -- The heron time -- Clop clop -- Voice of summer -- A black kite -- Fox fire -- Turning -- The chain to her leg -- No flag -- A message to Po Chu-I -- Variation on a theme -- The prow of the ark. |
| Summary |
An elaboration and response to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shadow of Sirius, W.S. Merwin examines everything from minute flowers to oceanic destruction, and weaves our complex relationship with the natural world with his own youth, memory, and intense engagement with the passing of days. With considered reverence, subtle might, and generous poetic imagination, Merwin presents a masterful and gorgeous collection. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781556594533 |
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1556594534 |
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