Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment

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Atheneum, 1973 - Poetry - 112 pages
"For years now, W.S. Merwin has been working more privately, profoundly and daringly than any other American poet of my generation. He has been developing a language and a poetic landscape which are both severe and sensuous, in which the silences--as in human intercourse--are as essential as the speech. ... They [his poems] reach backward and forward as he connects himself with the archaic, the totemic, the legendary, yet exists on the verge of our shattering future. ..."--Adrienne RichDonated by Prabu Vasan, 8/6/2011.

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Contents

EARLY ONE SUMMER
3
TO BE SUNG WHILE STILL LOOKING
16
A DOOR
29
Copyright

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Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
William Stanley Merwin
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Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
William Stanley Merwin
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air is clear autumn BALLADE OF SAYINGS believe bells birds bones born breath calling clear skies Dancing Bears 1954 dark doors same names dust ears earth echoes empty everything eyes face fall father feel feet flies flocks footprints forget groping hands hang hear heart hiding HORIZON IS GONE inside it's spring Jean Follain juggler knew lantern laughing Lazarillo de Tormes leaf Lice light listen live forever loneliness look Miner's Pale Children moon morning moths mountain Moving Target 1963 never night numbers numbers numbers once palace Poem remember rises Roman numerals starting sail seen my memory shadows shovels silence singing sits sleep smell Song of Roland sound Stanford University stars stones talk tell tongues trees turn UNFINISHED ACCOMPANIMENT veins vertical voices W. S. MERWIN waiting wake walk walls wind window wings world finds words write

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About the author (1973)

W. S. Merwin was born William Stanley Merwin in New York City on September 30, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1948 and did some graduate work there in Romance languages. He worked as a tutor and translator while writing poetry. In 1952, his first collection of poetry, A Mask for Janus, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Green with Beasts, The Moving Target, The Lice, The Compass Flower, The Rain in the Trees, The River Sound, The Moon Before Morning, and Garden Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders and in 2009 for The Shadow of Sirius, the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New and Selected Poems, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Vixen. He also published essays, short fiction, memoirs, and translations of Dante, Pablo Neruda, and Osip Mandelstam. Merwin's other works included Unframed Originals, The Lost Upland, The Ends of the Earth, and Summer Doorways. He also received the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Tanning Prize and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He died on March 15, 2019 at the age of 91.

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TitleWritings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
AuthorWilliam Stanley Merwin
PublisherAtheneum, 1973
ISBN0689105568, 9780689105562
Length112 pages
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