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| Genre/Form: | Poetry American poetry Poems |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
W S Merwin; Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) |
| ISBN: | 9781556592843 1556592841 9781556593109 1556593104 |
| OCLC Number: | 216936789 |
| Notes: | Poems. |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009. |
| Description: | xii, 117 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | The nomad flute -- Blueberries after dark -- Still morning -- By the avenue -- Note -- Accompaniment -- Without knowing -- The song of the trolleys -- From the start -- Far along in the story -- The pinnacle -- Child light -- Empty lot -- No -- The piano -- Secrets -- A likeness -- Raiment -- Europe -- Photographer -- Traces -- Inheritance -- A broken glass -- Lament for a stone -- A note from the Cimmerians -- A codex -- Beyond question -- Youth -- By dark -- Calling a distant animal -- Night with no moon -- Good night -- At the bend -- Into the cloud -- Another dream of burial -- A ring -- Little soul -- Trail marker -- Dream of Koa returning -- Cargo -- Going -- The curlew -- Nocturne -- Day without a name -- Recognitions -- Escape artist -- The mole -- Eye of shadow -- A letter to Ruth Stone -- Worn words -- A letter to Su Tung-p'o -- Basho's child -- The odds -- The long and the short of it -- Unknown age -- My hand -- What the bridges hear -- The first days -- Heartland -- Long afternoon light -- Cave -- The morning hills -- Cold spring morning -- Near field -- To Paula in late spring -- Youth of grass -- The silence of the mine canaries -- Walled place above the river -- A horse heaven -- One of the butterflies -- Parts of a tune -- Nocturne II -- White note -- Gray herons in the field above the river -- No shadow -- The making of amber -- September's child -- Remembering the wings -- Shadow hand -- Barrade -- Into October -- Lights out -- Falling -- Grace note -- One valley -- The old trees on the hill -- A single autumn -- Lake shore in half light -- A momentary creed -- Rain light -- Just this -- The laughing thrush -- Animula, a late visitation: a note on Hadrian's "Little Soul." |
| Responsibility: | W.S. Merwin. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
This volume presents a collection of poems reflecting the author's life. Mysteries of light, darkness, temporality, and eternity weave throughout his poetry. His memories are focused and profound, of Pennsylvania miners and neighborhood streetcars, a conversation with a boyhood teacher or parent, the distinct qualities of autumnal light and gentle rain, well-cultivated loves, and "our long evenings and astonishment." From the universe's contradictions, the author once again calls upon the unexpected to illuminate existence.
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