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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Page 135
... calling what I call calling me me You who are never there THE DIFFERENT STARS I could never have come to the THE / 135 CARRIER OF LADDERS.
... calling what I call calling me me You who are never there THE DIFFERENT STARS I could never have come to the THE / 135 CARRIER OF LADDERS.
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... calling it by your own name it might rise in its blindness with all its knuckles and curtains and open the eyes it was born with THE CLEAR SKIES The clouds that touch us out of clear skies they are eyes that we lost long ago on the ...
... calling it by your own name it might rise in its blindness with all its knuckles and curtains and open the eyes it was born with THE CLEAR SKIES The clouds that touch us out of clear skies they are eyes that we lost long ago on the ...
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... calling calling sailing the other way so it sounds like good - bye A DOOR Do you remember how I beat on the door kicked the door as though I or the door were a bad thing later it opened I went in nothing starlight snowing an empty ...
... calling calling sailing the other way so it sounds like good - bye A DOOR Do you remember how I beat on the door kicked the door as though I or the door were a bad thing later it opened I went in nothing starlight snowing an empty ...
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BY DAY AND BY NIGHT | 14 |
THE SAINT OF THE UPLANDS | 20 |
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