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Written by W.S. MerwinAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by W.S. Merwin

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • On Sale: March 12, 1988
  • Price: $18.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-394-75858-9 (0-394-75858-7)
about this book

Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem—so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as The Lice, The Moving Target and Opening the Hand, he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.

The poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.

Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.