books by W.S. Merwin     books:       The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca2 reviews Federico Garcia Lorca New Directions, 2005 Good, loud poems My husband used to read me this book when I was pregnant with my only child. The sound of the poems made her kick. Maybe the poems, but probably it was just the way he read them--in spanish--louder than he ever said anything. My husband never yelled, even when he was angry he just stayed by himself a bit, but he really used to get into these poems. From his childhood, I guess. He tried to ...             The Shadow of Sirius W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2008 "Merwin is one of the great poets of our age."- Los Angeles Times Book Review "The intentions of Merwin's poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper."- The Atlantic The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in W.S. Merwin's new book of poems. "I have only what I remember," Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a ...             The Dream Songs17 reviews John Berryman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 To like without much understanding I am not very knowledgable about Berryman and his work. I certainly have not read the poems with the time and intensity of a number of the reviewers on this site. I have an impression of Berryman and his work. It is of something vaguely likeable occaisionally able to provide a line which hits home. It is of a very variable voice in which the disorder and the breakdown somehow make the text too ...             Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)12 reviews Henry David Thoreau Signet Classics, 2004 He heard a different drummer- The sun is but a morning star Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the idea which perhaps as much as any other has come to be at the heart of the American creed. "If a man does not keep pace to his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Throreau when he went into the woods of ...             Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair39 reviews Pablo Neruda Chronicle Books, 1993 the most romantic book of love poems ever written perhaps this is the most romantic and most beautiful book of love poems ever written. every word, every stanza is so easily read, so quickly understood, like an arrow to the heard. give this gift to your lover and they will never forget it.             Present Company2 reviews W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2007 On Merwin: Words of Praise Fail How does one write critically about the abundant beauty of the poetry of W.S. Merwin? Long acclaimed as one of our most poignant and important poets, his newest collection is an endless stream of homages to fleeting thoughts, ideas, and other delicacies encounter by the informed eye and heart. Merwin keeps his language simple but continues to prod our senses with challenging concepts. In these ...             The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (New York Review Books Classics)2 reviews Osip Mandelstam NYRB Classics, 2004 His poems living still MANDELSTAM We do not know the way to the darkness of the word or the excellent silence concealed inside our poems we only know the drumbeat of our own pain and the flickering madness of a land's best lights lost All we are and can be is a poem that will never come home again. Stalin's death is Russia's life The man Mandelstam murdered His poems living still.             Migration: New & Selected Poems3 reviews W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2007 W.S. Merwin: A Poet of Vision and Connection At last there is a significantly large volume of the majestic poetry of W.S. Merwin. Not that all of his other volumes of poems published through the years by Copper Canyon Press have been minor: the length of the books does not begin to mimic the towering power of his work. But here in MIGRATION: NEW & SELECTED POEMS we have enough of his life's work to truly appreciated the fact that he is ...             In Parenthesis (New York Review Books) David Jones NYRB Classics, 2003 "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the ...             The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative8 reviews W.S. Merwin Knopf, 2000 Great book but a lot of typos I have just finished reading this delightful book. I am also a book editor and publisher, and would like to offer some suggestions should the book ever be reprinted or issued in a new edition. I am very aware of how errors creep in, and I have made a large number of bloopers myself, so no one is perfect, but I would hope a publisher with the vintage prestige of Knopf would make every effort to ...             Remains of a Rainbow: Rare Plants and Animals of Hawaii8 reviews Susan Middleton, David Liittschwager National Geographic, 2003 WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW WOWS on every page. I gave this book to my Mother and Aunt for X-Mass. I wanted one for myself but ran out of cash (dag nab it) This is one of the most AMAZING nature books ever. If you need some brownie points give this as a gift, it will keep you out of the Dog House for YEARS.             The Book of Fables2 reviews W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2007 W.S. Merwin's The Book of Fables If you read for escape and with not a lot of time to sink into a long work, then Merwin's The Book of Fables is the place to go. It's like a gated play yard for the imagination to spend its recess time. You can climb on a spinning yarn and be dazzled as the landscape whirls by, or you can go through the ups and downs of a see-saw ride, or pick up a question from a grassy expanse, roll it in ...             The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an ...4 reviews W. S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 1992 "We were not born to survive, only to live." --Merwin Merwin touches the universal with specifics. Merwin's book bears a simplicity lacking in much of what we do today. His word choice in these poems rarely indicates they were written in the 1970's, but the style is poignantly modern nonetheless. As subjects, Merwin takes nature, aging and friendships. He peppers these with haunting feelings of hollowness, biblical allusions, and the occasional ...             Rain in the Trees3 reviews W.S. Merwin Knopf, 1988 Entrancing W. S. Merwin is clearly a major figure in American poetry. His work, emphasizing nature, memory, plants, the forest, is thought-provoking, insightful, and delightful. If you buy only one book of poetry this year, buy this one. Everyone we have shared the book with has become absolutely enchanted- a true masterpiece.             Sir Gawain and the Green Knight8 reviews Knopf, 2004 A smooth, fluid translation of a great medieval tale As a translator myself (currently working on a translation of Le Conte du Graal from the old French), I am in awe of Merwin's fluid rendering of this middle English tale. He uses a true vernacular style and vocabulary, giving non of the false archaism with which translations of works of this period are generally imbued. It's clear that he is a poet first, and a translator second. But he also ...             Transparence of the World (A Kagean Book)3 reviews Jean Follain Copper Canyon Press, 2003 Poet and Translator: A Perfect Marriage Fortunate we are that W.S. Merwin commits as much time to translating other poets from other countries and times as he commits to writing his own magnificent works. His gifts as a poet make him far more than a translator: Merwin finds the seed of intention of the poet's works he embraces and manages to lift the thoughts intact into the English language. This very fine compilation of the ...             The First Four Books of Poems2 reviews W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2000 Hard to read for the uninitiated This is very hard to get into unless you're familiar with Merwin's more contemporary works. In this volume of his first four poetry books, he explores themes familiar to us all: love, animals, folk tales, themes in nature, rivers, and death. His poems are almost all uniquely consistent with the same voice; there is none of the rising up and swelling of other poets, no rhythm to speak of, and one ...             On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (Poetry Series)7 reviews Interlink Publishing Group, 1996 One of the greatest love poets that ever lived Don't let the fact that his words have been translated from their original Arabic dissuade you from believing that somehow the work isn't as honest as it should be. Qabbani's work is so powerful it hardly matter shwat language it is in. In short, easily read dollops of wit measured out with a voice of quiet urging, he has given us work that transcends time and politics, while being ...              search for books accompaniment, animals, anniversary, carrier, classics, company, despair, disobedience, entering, fables, federico, folding, ladders, mandelstam, migration, moving, narrative, parenthesis, present, qabbani, rainbow, remains, second, selected, shadow, sirius, transparence, unfinished, walden, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: 100 sposobov izbezhat' anginy leave a comment home  impressum - about us