Research Catalog

Title

The drunk in the furnace / by W.S. Merwin.

Author

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019

Publication

• New York : The Macmillan Company, 1960.
• ©1960

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

viii, 54 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

The Macmillan poets ; 35

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Macmillan poets

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• American poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Odysseus -- The iceberg -- Fog-horn -- Deception island -- Sea wife -- The frozen sea -- Sailor ashore -- The Portland going out -- Sea monster -- Cape Dread -- Bell buoy -- The bones -- The highway -- Fable -- Luther -- Bucolic -- Under the old one -- No one -- In a cloud of hands -- In stony country-- Catullus XI -- Summer -- Some winter sparrows -- Plea for a captive -- Choice of prides -- The climb -- Blind girl -- One-eye -- Small woman on Swallow Street -- The gleaners -- Pool room in the Lions' Club -- John Otto -- Uncle Hess -- Grandfather in the old men's home -- Grandmother watching at her window -- Grandmother dying -- The native -- Burning mountain -- Grandmother and grandson -- The hotel-keepers -- The drunk in the furnace.

LCCN

60014768

OCLC

• ocm00289490
• 289490
• SCSB-741278

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library