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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
October 1, 2002
Pages
112
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375709647
ISBN-10
0375709649
Dimensions
0.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
Original list price
$18.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Now in paperback, a startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Hailed by Peter Davison in the Boston Sunday Globe as a poet who âengages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match,â W. S. Merwin now gives us The Pupil, a volume of astonishing range and extraordinary beauty: a major literary event.
These are poems of great lyrical intensity, concerned with darkness and light, with the seasons, and with the passing of time across landscapes that are both vast and minutely imagined. They capture the spiritual anguish of our time; the bittersweet joys of vanishing wilderness; anger at our political wrong- doings; the sensuality that memory can engender. Here are remembrances of the poetâs youth, lyrics on the loss of loved ones, echoes
from the surfaces of the natural world. Here, too, is the poetâs sense of a larger mystery:
. . . we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for
âfrom âThe Marfa Lightsâ
Passionate, rigorous, and quietly profound, The Pupil is an essential addition to the canon of contemporary American poetryâa book that finds W. S. Merwinâs singularly resonant voice at the height of its power.
From the Hardcover edition.
These are poems of great lyrical intensity, concerned with darkness and light, with the seasons, and with the passing of time across landscapes that are both vast and minutely imagined. They capture the spiritual anguish of our time; the bittersweet joys of vanishing wilderness; anger at our political wrong- doings; the sensuality that memory can engender. Here are remembrances of the poetâs youth, lyrics on the loss of loved ones, echoes
from the surfaces of the natural world. Here, too, is the poetâs sense of a larger mystery:
. . . we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for
âfrom âThe Marfa Lightsâ
Passionate, rigorous, and quietly profound, The Pupil is an essential addition to the canon of contemporary American poetryâa book that finds W. S. Merwinâs singularly resonant voice at the height of its power.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (October 1, 2001)
9780375412769 | details & prices | 91 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.00
About: A new collection of poems by celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.
About: A new collection of poems by celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (October 1, 2002)
9780375709647 | details & prices | 112 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $18.00
About: Now in paperback, a startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.
About: Now in paperback, a startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.
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