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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsPresent Companyby W S Merwin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:“One of America’s greatest living poets.”—The Washington Post Book World “Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex. Classical in their lines of inquiry and restraint yet vital in their attunement to the here and now, these personal odes and musings on daily existence and the cycles of life are, by turns, bemused and exalted . . . each poem infuses the collection with buoyancy and light.”—Booklist Now in paperback, W.S. Merwin’s latest masterwork—which reviewers have described as “meditative,” “playful,” and “lithely beautiful”—guides readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. Akin to Pablo Neruda’s Elemental Odes, every poem in Present Company directly addresses the people and things of daily life, as in “To the Thief at the Airport” or “To Lingering Regrets.” “To This May” They know so much more now about the heart we are told but the world still seems to come one at a time one day one year one season and here it is spring once more with its birds nesting in the holes in the walls its morning finding the first time its light pretending not to move always beginning as it goes Synopsis:Paperback of WS Merwin's most recent volume, a book infused with "buoyancy and light." (Booklist) Synopsis:Poetry. In this new masterwork from one of America's foremost poets, W.S. Merwin guides his readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. "The intentions of Merwin's poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper. He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth, and underground"--The Atlantic Monthly.
About the AuthorW.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Wallace Stevens Award, Bollingen Award, Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, PEN Translation Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and poetry in translation. He lives in Hawaii.
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