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The Pupil: Poems
| A pupil is both a student and the aperture in the eye that responds to light and dark, and Merwin, a much-honored and sage poet, explores both meanings in this elegant collection of spare, haunting poems. |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
| The first great story in English literature, Beowulf, is about fighting monsters--Grendel and his mother--and so is the next, the fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Following the example of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, Merwin's Sir Gawain replicates the propulsive alliteration and the rhymed-quatrain stanza endings of the original, and the translation appears face-to-face with the Middle English original. A major translation of a major English, and a major horror, classic. |
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Flower & Hand: Poems 1977-1983: The Compass Flower: Opening the Hand: Feathers from the Hill
| To achieve the world-class stature Merwin has so rightly earned, a poet must start off strong, and Merwin was no exception. This volume reclaims the long out-of-print collections The Compass Flower (1977) and Opening the Hand (1983) in their glorious entirety, as well as the 1982 suite, "Feathers from the Hill," poems of exquisite clarity that evince Merwin's sensuality, virtuosity, and vital sense of discovery. |
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The Mays of Ventadorn
| One of the finest senior U.S. poets stunningly evokes in prose the fabled romance and dark beauty of southwestern France. Seemingly channeling the troubadour spirit of the region, Merwin paints broad, but strikingly detailed, landscapes with his words, using language itself as a main character. He intermingles his personal experiences in the region with the songs of twelfth-century troubadours, illustrating superbly the flexibility of time in the historical cocoon of this ancient and endlessly resurrected locale. |
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The Vixen: Poems
| Merwin's new book of poems is expectedly dazzling and profoundly of a piece. It is concerned with the people and the countryside of the relatively unknown part of southwest France with which he has been associated for many years. Part lyrical, part narrative, these poems are the work of a master. |
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Travels: Poems
| One may imagine Rimbaud late in life at his Sudanese trading post, composing the sort of poems W.S. Merwin offers in Travels, winner of the 1994 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. |
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