The Second Four Books of PoemsW.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii. W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy." Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium: |
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... Breath of land , warm breath , You tighten the 24 W.S. MERWIN FINALLY THE SHIPS ARE MADE READY IN SILENCE /
... Breath of land , warm breath , You tighten the 24 W.S. MERWIN FINALLY THE SHIPS ARE MADE READY IN SILENCE /
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William Stanley Merwin. Breath of land , warm breath , You tighten the cold around the navel , Though all shores but the first have been foreign , And the first was not home until left behind . Our choice is ours but we have not made it ...
William Stanley Merwin. Breath of land , warm breath , You tighten the cold around the navel , Though all shores but the first have been foreign , And the first was not home until left behind . Our choice is ours but we have not made it ...
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... breath from fear for it is your breath I do it and I'm supposed to explain it too I fear I completed my fear in everything there is fear and I would speak for myself but fear says logic follows but I advance in everything and so ...
... breath from fear for it is your breath I do it and I'm supposed to explain it too I fear I completed my fear in everything there is fear and I would speak for myself but fear says logic follows but I advance in everything and so ...
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