In The Lost Upland, W. S. Merwin vividly conveys his intimate
knowledge of the people and the countryside in this ancient part of
France (home of the Lascaux caves). In three narratives of
small-town life, Merwin shows with matchless poetic and narrative
power how the past is still palpably present. On its original
publication in 1992 Jane Kramer wrote, "These stories are a gift
from one of the great poets of the English language, a chronicle of
the heart-stopping seasons of one small corner of La France
Profonde and of its stubborn and illusive characters. Merwin's
French peasants are a force of nature, like the blackberry brambles
that used to choke his garden, and he cultivates them both with
that attentive, exacting, and relentlessly patient genius that
great poets and great gardeners share. This is, simply, the most
beautiful writing about France I know."
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