| Description |
xviii, 338 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
A Mask for Janus (1952). Dictum: For a masque of deluge ; The Dancing bears (1954). On the subject of poetry ; Miscellaneous translations. Ja nus hon pris ne dira sa reson ; The Mirabeau Bridge ; World's end ; To a minor poet of the Greek anthology ; The Song of Despair ; Tonight I can write ; from Voices ; Asian figures ; You have what I look for ; The Lovers ; Toki-no ge (Satori poem) ; "Whenever I sleep" ; Eight verses on a humble life ; "With the sweetness of the new season" ; Quan vei l'alauzeta mover ; Green with beasts (1956). Leviathan ; The Master ; Burning the cat ; River Sound remembered ; Learning a dead language ; Two paintings by Alfred Wallis ; The Shipwreck ; The Eyes of the drowned watch keels going over ; The Drunk in the furnace (1960). Odysseus ; Deception island ; Fable ; No one ; Summer ; Plea for a captive ; Pool room in the Lions Club ; Burning mountain ; The Drunk in the furnace ; The Moving target (1963). Home for Thanksgiving ; A Letter from Gussie ; Lemuel's blessing ; Separation ; Noah's raven ; Savonarola ; Dead hand ; Departure's girl-friend ; Invocation ; The Poem ; Vocations ; Air ; The Lice (1967). The Animals ; The Hydra ; Some last questions ; The Last one ; The Gods ; The River of bees ; The Widow ; December night ; Glimpse of the ice ; Provision ; For the anniversary of my death ; In the winter of my thirty-eighth year ; When you go away ; The Asians dying ; When the war is over ; For a coming extinction ; Avoiding news by the river ; Watchers ; Looking for mushrooms at sunrise ; The Carrier of ladders (1970). Teachers ; Words from a totem animal ; The Piper ; Envoy from d'Aubigne ; The Gardens of Zuni ; Little horse ; The Night of the shirts ; The Miner's pale children (1970). The Dwelling ; Tergvinder's stone ; Unchopping a tree ; The Eight cakes ; A Garden ; Writings to an unfinished accompaniment (1973). Early one summer ; Song of man chipping an arrowhead ; Something I've not done ; A Door ; The Unwritten ; Ash ; Sibyl ; Horses ; Exercise ; Finding a teacher ; Gift ; The Compass flower (1977). The Heart ; An Encampment at morning ; Migration ; Numbered apartment ; The Love for October ; Houses and travellers (1977). The Lonely child ; Opening the hand (1983). Yesterday ; Questions to tourists stopped by a pineapple field ; James ; Berryman ; What is modern ; The Black jewel ; The Rain in the trees (1988). Late Spring ; West wall ; History ; After school ; Rain at night ; The sound of the light ; Thanks ; Place ; Witness ; Chord ; Losing a language ; Travels (1993). The Blind seer of Ambon ; Rimbaud's piano ; Search party ; One story ; Rain travel ; Turning ; The Vixen (1996). Fox sleep ; Threshold ; White morning ; Francois de Maynard 1582-1646 ; Holderlin at the river ; One of the lives ; Vixen ; A Given day ; The Folding cliffs: A narrative (1998). Part 36 of "The Cliffs" section ; The River Sound (1999). The Stranger ; The Chinese mountain fox ; Lament for the makers ; The Wren ; This time ; The Pupil (2001). Prophecy ; Sonnet ; In the open ; Home tundra ; Present company (2005). To the face in the mirror ; To the margin ; To the woods ; To the book ; The Shadow of Sirius (2008). The Nomad flute ; Still morning ; Note ; From the start ; Far along in the story ; Youth ; Little soul ; Going ; Worn words ; A Letter to Su Tung-p'o ; The Long and the short of it ; To Paula in late Spring ; Nocturne II ; Rain light ; The Laughing thrush ; The Moon before morning (2014). Homecoming ; Dew light ; Beginners ; Antique sound ; Wild oats ; How it happens ; Convenience ; Unknown soldier ; Lear's wife ; Variation on a theme ; Garden time (2016). The Morning ; My other dark ; What can we call it ; Living with the news ; The Wild geese ; Here together ; No believer ; Wish (2017). |
| Summary |
"A deeply considered selection from W.S. Merwin's vast oeuvre that represents the poems--and a few select pieces of prose--that readers will cherish today, tomorrow, and into the next century. This incisive, slender collection draws only the best of the best from the work Merwin published over his sixty-year writing career. A teeming, resonate, exuberant testament of a rare, revolutionary, and deeply rewarding poet. And what better way to honor those thousands of poems that are not in The Essential by highlighting an aphoristic poem that is: Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. Since launching his career by winning the Yale Younger Poets Award 1952, W.S. Merwin has written and translated sixty books of poetry and prose and won every major literary prize this country has to offer."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Added Author |
Wiegers, Michael, editor.
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| Added Title |
W. S. Merwin |
| ISBN |
9781556595134 (paperback) |
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1556595131 (paperback) |
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