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The pupil

Following the success of his translation of Dante's Purgatorio and of his most recent collection, The River Sound (hailed by Richard Howard as "the most intimate, the most vulnerable of all Merwin's work, " and by Peter Davison as "Astonishing . . . Engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match."), W.S. Merwin gives us a new collection of poetry, written in his mesmerizing voice
Print Book, English, 2001
First edition View all formats and editions
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001
poetry
ix, 91 pages ; 25 cm
9780375412769, 037541276X
47013197
Prophecy
3(1)
The Comet Museum
4(1)
Sonnet
5(1)
The Time of Shadow
6(1)
The Hours of Darkness
7(3)
Flights in the Dark
10(1)
The Marfa Lights
11(3)
Migrants by Night
14(2)
In the Open
16(3)
Overtone
19(1)
Fires in Childhood
20(1)
Glassy Sea
21(1)
The Moment
22(1)
Any Time
23(1)
Far Company
24(1)
Aliens
25(1)
Mid-Air Mirror
26(1)
A Term
27(1)
Unspoken Greeting
28(1)
The Open Land
29(1)
Before the Flood
30(1)
A Calling
31(1)
Remembering the Signs
32(1)
Lit in Passing
33(1)
At Night Before Spring
34(1)
One Night in April
35(1)
Unknown Bird
36(2)
Daylight
38(1)
Worn
39(1)
Downstream
40(1)
Before the May Fair
41(1)
Once in Spring
42(1)
The Veil of May
43(1)
The Youth of Animals
44(1)
The Hollow in the Stone
45(1)
Late Song
46(1)
The Source
47(2)
First Sight
49(1)
First of June
50(1)
Unseen Touch
51(1)
The Summer
52(1)
The Black Virgin
53(1)
To the Spiders of This Room
54(1)
Above the Long Field
55(1)
Under the Day
56(1)
Simon's Vision
57(1)
Wings
58(1)
A Morning in Autumn
59(1)
The Night Plums
60(1)
In the Old Vineyard
61(1)
Just Now
62(1)
To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me That He Has Lost His Memory
63(1)
Planh for the Death of Ted Hughes
64(1)
A Collection
65(1)
A Death in the Desert
66(1)
Calling Late
67(1)
One of the Laws
68(1)
Star
69(2)
Feast Day
71(1)
Good People
72(1)
The Fence
73(1)
The Sleeper
74(1)
In Time
75(1)
Through a Glass
76(1)
Before Morning
77(2)
Earlier
79(1)
Memorandum
80(1)
To Echo
81(1)
The Wild
82(1)
Transit
83(1)
Usage
84(1)
Home Tundra
85(1)
Monologue
86(1)
The Name of the Air
87(1)
To Maoli as the Year Ends
88(1)
The Flight of Language
89(1)
Heights
90(1)
This January
91
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