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Featured on NPRs Fresh Air and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.Honored as one of the Best Books of the Year from Publishers Weekly.Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.Los Angeles Times BookReview Merwins best book in a decadeand one of the best outright...The poems... feel fresh and awake with a simplicity that can only be calledwisdom. Publishers Weekly Merwins gentle wisdom and attentiveness tothe world are alive as ever. These deeply reflective meditations move throughlight and darkness old love and turning seasons to probe the core of humanexistence. Orion The nuanced mysteries of light darkness presence andmemory are central themes in W.S. Merwins new book of poems. I have only whatI remember Merwin admits and his memories are focused and profoundthedistinct qualities of autumn light a conversation with a boyhood teacherwellcultivated loves and our long evenings and astonishment. InPhotographer Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glassnegatives are saved from a dumpcart by someone who understood. In EmptyLot Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night listening to the muffleddynamite blasts of coal mining near his home and we cant help but ask Howshall we mine our lives? somewhere the Perseids are fallingtoward us alreadyat a speed that wouldburn us alive if we could believe itbut in the stillnessafter the rain endsnothing is to be heard but the drops falling W.S. Merwinauthor of over fifty books is Americas foremost poet. His last two books werehonored with major literary awards Migration won the National Book Award andPresent Company received the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. «
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