Travels
In Travels, one of the most beautiful and moving collections of poetry of his career, W. S. Merwin displays his narrative gifts to provide us with a book of deep historical resonance and luminous poetic grace…With each new book we have been reminded why, for forty years, he has remained a pivotal figure in the literary life of this country…[he] continues to earn his place as one of our most influential and compelling contemporary poets. -David St. John, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-75277-6
- EAN: 9780679752776
- Produktnummer: 9533748
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Über den Autor
W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands, where he cultivates rare palm trees. His many works of poems, prose, and translation are listed at the beginning of this volume. He has been awarded a fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (of which he is now a chancellor), the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. Most recently, he has received the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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