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This title in other formats:The Shadow of Siriusby W. S. Merwin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"Merwin is one of the great poets of our age."-Los Angeles Times Book Review "The intentions of Merwin's poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper."-The Atlantic The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in W.S. Merwin's new book of poems. "I have only what I remember,"Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, well- cultivated loves, and "our long evenings and astonishment."In "Photographer,"Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a dumpcart by "someone who understood."In "Empty Lot,"Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How shall we mine our lives? somewhere the Perseids are falling toward us already at a speed that would burn us alive if we could believe it but in the stillness after the rain ends nothing is to be heard but the drops falling W.S. Merwin, author of over fifty books, is America's foremost poet. His last two books were honored with major literary awards: Migration won the National Book Award, and Present Company received the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. Review:"In his best book in a decade — and one of the best outright — Merwin points his oracular, unpunctuated poems toward his own past, admitting, 'I have only what I remember,' and offering what may be his most personal, generous and empathic collection. Somehow, he manages to dissolve the boundaries between one time and another, seeming to look forward to the past or remember what has yet to happen, as in a recollection of traveling to Europe by boat and seeing 'a warship I recognized/ from a model of it I had made/ when I was a child/ and beyond it/ there was a road down the cliff/ that I would descend some years later/ and recognize it/ there we were all together/ one time.' The poems show the marks of having weathered '...the complete course/ of life,' but also feel fresh and awake with a simplicity that can only be called wisdom: 'the morning is too/ beautiful to be anything else.' Gorgeous poems about enduring love melt time as well, looking toward a moment when 'we will be no older than we ever were.' These are among Merwin's best poems, because, as he says, 'it is the late poems/ that are made of words/ that have come the whole way/ they have been there.' (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorW.S. Merwin is the author of over fifty books of poetry, prose, and translations. He has earned every major literary prize, most recently the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Hawaii where he raised endangered palm trees. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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