"One of America's greatest living poets."-The Washington Post
Book World
"Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex.
Classical in their lines of inquiry and restraint yet vital in
their attunement to the here and now, these personal odes and
musings on daily existence and the cycles of life are, by turns,
bemused and exalted . . . each poem infuses the collection with
buoyancy and light."-Booklist
Now in paperback, W.S. Merwin's latest masterwork-which
reviewers have described as "meditative," "playful," and "lithely
beautiful"-guides readers to universal themes through worldly
specifics. Akin to Pablo Neruda's Elemental Odes, every poem in
Present Company directly addresses the people and things of daily
life, as in "To the Thief at the Airport" or "To Lingering
Regrets."
"To This May"
They know so much more now about the heart we are told but the
world still seems to come one at a time one day one year one season
and here it is spring once more with its birds nesting in the holes
in the walls its morning finding the first time its light
pretending not to move always beginning as it goes
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