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This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever
published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and
injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as
accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in
1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen, this
book is still adored the world over for being one of the most
memorable, intense and romantic works of poetry ever written. It is
a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new. The perfect
Valentine's Day present. INTRODUCED BY LEO BOIX 'The poems today
remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers' Carol Ann
Duffy The Vintage Classics Love Poems series brings together some
of the most sensual, heart-breaking and romantic poetry ever
written. Working in collaboration with Vintage Creative Director
Suzanne Dean this edition has been created by Spanish illustrator
Jesús Cisneros.
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the
last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated
the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern
American literature, he was United States Poet Laureate in 2010-11.
Merwin composed the poems of Garden Time as he was losing his
eyesight. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he
dictated the poems to his wife, Paula. In this gorgeous, mindful
and life-affirming book, he channels energy from animated sounds
and memories to remind us that 'the only hope is to be the
daylight'. This late collection written in his late-80s finds him
deeply immersed in reflection on the passage of time and the
frailty and sustaining power of memory. Switching between past and
present, he shows us a powerful and moving vision of the eternal,
focusing on images of mornings, sunsets, shifting seasons, stars,
birds and insects to capture the connectedness of time, space and
the natural world. In a poem about Li Po, 'now there is only the
river / that was always on its own way'. In another poem he dreams
that 'the same river is still here / the house is the old house and
I am here in the morning / in the sunlight and the same bird is
singing'. He remembers when 'dragonflies were as common as sunlight
/ hovering in their own days' and recalls 'a house that had been
left to its own silence / for half a century'. In a poem of wonder
entitled 'Variations to the Accompaniment of a Cloud', he writes:
'I keep looking for what has always been mine / searching for it
even as I / think of leaving it.' Poetry Book Society
Recommendation
The Nobel Prize-winning poet's most popular work
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the
international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings
would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation
faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics
edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands
as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and
poets around the world.
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion
desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work.
Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes
youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the
poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine
eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism
and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly
corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations
by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.Includes twelve
sketches by Pablo PicassoNew introduction by Cristina GarciaA
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition pacjaged with French flaps
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the
last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated
the vision of poetry for our time. While he was long viewed in the
States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his
poetry was unavailable in Britain for over 35 years until Bloodaxe
published this edition of his Selected Poems in 2007. This new
selection covers over five decades of his poetry, from The Dancing
Bears (1954) to Present Company (2005). Most of the book is drawn
from his major American retrospective, Migration, winner of the
2005 National Book Award for Poetry. It was followed in 2009 by The
Shadow of Sirius, which won him a second Pulitzer Prize, and then
by The Moon Before Morning (2014) and Garden Time (2016). Merwin's
poetry has moved beyond the traditional verse of his early years to
revolutionary open forms that engage a vast array of influences and
possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of his work: 'I would be
shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn't take so much from
it into my own life.' His recent poetry is perhaps his most
personal, arising from his deeply held beliefs. Merwin is not only
profoundly anti-imperialist, pacifist and environmentalist, but
also possessed by an intimate feeling for landscape and language
and the ways in which land and language interflow. His latest poems
are densely imagistic, dream-like, and full of praise for the
natural world.
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The Lice (Paperback)
W.S. Merwin; Introduction by Matthew Zapruder
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Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
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British Library Thoreau, Henry David; 1854. 8 . 10410.aaa.32.
Poetry. Asian Studies. This collection furthers Copper Canyon's
project of reintroducing Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. Merwin's
out-of-print works, drawing together poems from his classic
collections Asian Figures, Sun at Midnight, and his two volumes of
Selected Translations. Gathered here are translations and versions
of poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as varied as Urdu,
Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, Persian, and Vietnamese. The book
contains poems from some of the world's greatest writers, including
Rumi, Tu Fu, Li Po, and Muso Soseki.
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the
last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and
reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice
in modern American literature, he was United States Poet Laureate
in 2010-11. The Moon Before Morning is a love letter composed in a
stunning rush of memory. Answering the call set forth in The Shadow
of Sirius (2009), which won him his second Pulitzer Prize, Merwin
extends the emotional and intellectual reach of that collection
with passionate reverence for the natural world, bittersweet
reflection on time's irrevocable ravages, and equanimity informed
by a lifetime of writing and practised contemplation. Merwin's
studied precision in form and language filters crisp, beautiful
images through ethereal memory, forging an intense bond between the
writer and a quickly transforming world. 'When we forget,' Merwin
writes, others will remember: no action or spirit on Earth is
without its infinite reverberations. Poetry Book Society
Recommendation.
US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential
American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured
and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe
published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'his
best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers
Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer
Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK.
The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are
central themes in his latest collection. 'I have only what I
remember,' Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and
profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation
with a boyhood teacher, well-cultivated loves, and 'our long
evenings and astonishment'. In 'Photographer', Merwin presents the
scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a
dumpcart by 'someone who understood'. In 'Empty Lot', Merwin evokes
a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite
blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How
shall we mine our lives?
Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: "Don
Quixote" and "Lazarillo de Tormes," the first picaresque novel ever
written and the inspired precursor to works as various as "Vanity
Fair" and "Huckleberry Finn," Banned by the Spanish Inquisition
after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout
Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this
day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with
which it exposes human hypocrisy.
The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind
beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very
useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service
of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together
revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are
made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer
with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.
This version of Lazarillo, by the prizewinning poet and translator
W.S. Merwin, brings out the wonderful vitality and humor of this
universal masterwork.
The author of" Lazarillo de Tormes" is unknown.
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of
enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation -
by one of the world's leading poets - has already been acclaimed in
America. The original poem and W.S. Merwin's modern version are
comparable in stature and imaginative power to another medieval
epic, Beowulf, in Seamus Heaney's rendering. All Camelot is merry
with Christmas revelry when an enormous green-skinned knight with
brilliant green clothes rides into King Arthur's court. This giant
throws down a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe
to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever delivers
the fatal blade must promise to take the same in a year and a day.
When the young Gawain beheads him, the Green Knight grabs hold of
his severed head and makes off on horseback. The poem follows
Gawain's adventures thereafter - shockingly brutal hunts, an almost
impossible seduction, and terrifyingly powerful adversaries - as he
gallantly struggles to honour his promise. Capturing the pace,
impact and richly alliterative language of the original Middle
English text - presented on facing pages - Merwin brings a new
immediacy to a spellbinding, timeless narrative written many
centuries ago by a master poet whose identity has been lost to
time. Modern and Middle English parallel text edition.
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."
"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
These never-before published translations of "Blood Wedding" and
"Yerma" unite two of Federico Garcia Lorca's most passionate
masterpieces with two of America's most gifted poets, Langston
Hughes and W.S. Merwin.
W. S. Merwin is widely acknowledged as one of the finest living
poets in English. Less well known is the power and range of his
work in prose. For his first new prose collection in more than ten
years, The Ends of the Earth, Merwin has gathered eight essays that
show the breadth of his imagination and sympathy. A memoir of
George Kirstein, publisher of "The Nation," stands alongside one of
Sydney Parkinson, explorer, naturalist and artist on Captain James
Cook's Endeavour. A wonderful portrait of the French explorer of
Hawai'i, Jean-Francois Galaup de La Perouse is followed by a visit
to the Neanderthal skeleton of Boffia Bonneval. There are treks
through the Hawaiian forests, to the Holy Mountain of Athos, and
with the butterflies in Mexico. For this magical and wondrous
journey we have as our guide the excited and concise
poet-naturalist, writing at the top of his form.
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Last of the Curlews (Paperback)
Fred Bodsworth; Foreword by W.S. Merwin; Afterword by Murray Gell-Mann; Illustrated by Abigail Rorer
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In this conservation classic, originally published fifty-five years
ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's
perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes
to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction,
and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback
edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S.
Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray
Gell-Mann.
With "Lament for the Makers" W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work
of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important
to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet.
Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas,
Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams,
Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot,
Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Ezra
Pound, David Jones, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright,
Howard Moss, Robert Graves, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, and
James Merrill. Photographs and brief biographies of the poets are
also included.
"Lament for the Makers" connects the work of one of our most gifted
contemporary poets with the modern masters who have defined the
twentieth-century poetic tradition.
America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and
few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't
always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an
ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such
departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and
improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but
complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation,"
writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty-one, married and graduated from
Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948
when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to
the postwar landscape. "Summer Doorways" captures Merwin at a
similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award
in 1952 for his first book, "A Mask for Janus"--the moment was, as
the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a
summer."
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