The pupil

Authors:W. S. Merwin (Author), Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)

Summary: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

Edition:First edition View all formats and editions

Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001

Genre:poetry

Physical Description:ix, 91 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780375412769, 037541276X

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:47013197

Subjects:

Poetry

Poésie

poetry

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Pupil.

Merwin, W.S. (William Stanley), 1927-

604278398

Contents:

Prophecy

(1)

The Comet Museum

(1)

Sonnet

(1)

The Time of Shadow

(1)

The Hours of Darkness

(3)

Flights in the Dark

(1)

The Marfa Lights

(3)

Migrants by Night

(2)

In the Open

(3)

Overtone

(1)

Fires in Childhood

(1)

Glassy Sea

(1)

The Moment

(1)

Any Time

(1)

Far Company

(1)

Aliens

(1)

Mid-Air Mirror

(1)

A Term

(1)

Unspoken Greeting

(1)

The Open Land

(1)

Before the Flood

(1)

A Calling

(1)

Remembering the Signs

(1)

Lit in Passing

(1)

At Night Before Spring

(1)

One Night in April

(1)

Unknown Bird

(2)

Daylight

(1)

Worn

(1)

Downstream

(1)

Before the May Fair

(1)

Once in Spring

(1)

The Veil of May

(1)

The Youth of Animals

(1)

The Hollow in the Stone

(1)

Late Song

(1)

The Source

(2)

First Sight

(1)

First of June

(1)

Unseen Touch

(1)

The Summer

(1)

The Black Virgin

(1)

To the Spiders of This Room

(1)

Above the Long Field

(1)

Under the Day

(1)

Simon's Vision

(1)

Wings

(1)

A Morning in Autumn

(1)

The Night Plums

(1)

In the Old Vineyard

(1)

Just Now

(1)

To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me That He Has Lost His Memory

(1)

Planh for the Death of Ted Hughes

(1)

A Collection

(1)

A Death in the Desert

(1)

Calling Late

(1)

One of the Laws

(1)

Star

(2)

Feast Day

(1)

Good People

(1)

The Fence

(1)

The Sleeper

(1)

In Time

(1)

Through a Glass

(1)

Before Morning

(2)

Earlier

(1)

Memorandum

(1)

To Echo

(1)

The Wild

(1)

Transit

(1)

Usage

(1)

Home Tundra

(1)

Monologue

(1)

The Name of the Air

(1)

To Maoli as the Year Ends

(1)

The Flight of Language

(1)

Heights

(1)

This January

Notes:

"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso

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