Summer Doorways
A Memoir
In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W. S. Merwin made his first trip abroad. 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.” Thus begins his most recent memoir, Summer Doorways.Through his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the years next spent as a tutor for the children of privilege living abroad, Summer Doorways tells the story…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61902-814-2
- EAN: 9781619028142
- Produktnummer: 31910329
- Verlag: Catapult
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 996 KB
Über den Autor
W. S. Merwin is one of our most distinguished poets and translators and is the acting United States Poet Laureate. A two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, he has also been honored with the Bollingen Prize and a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. In 1995 he received the first Dorothea Tanning Prize. He lives and works in Hawaii.
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