Research Catalog

Title

Travels : poems / by W.S. Merwin.

Author

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

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

x, 137 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Merwin is a major figure in our poetry, one of the few. His first book of verse in five years is an event. It is a very full selection with many sides: brief lyrics and long narratives, all of them marked by a moving and profound sense of the natural world and the presence in it of living creatures. Merwin's language is entirely his own, and his control of it and of the construction of his poems makes for breathtaking work of enduring quality. The narratives are a departure for this poet, dealing as they do with historical figures: "Rimbaud's Piano" is an extended meditation on the poet; others deal with naturalists such as William Bartram, Georg Eberhard Rumpf ("The Blind Seer of Ambon"), and David Douglas; and in "The Real World of Manuel Cordova" he tells a story almost as enthralling as Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• "This is a Borzoi Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The blind seer of Ambon -- Manini -- Writing lives -- The hill of evening -- Barn -- Rimbaud's piano -- Among bells -- Search party -- Missing -- Paul -- Kites -- A distance -- The morning train -- Fulfilment -- The lost Camelia of the Bartrams -- After Douglas -- Cinchona -- Inheritance -- The day itself -- Lives of the artists -- Panes -- The wars in New Jersey -- A short nap on the way -- The moment of green -- The river -- So far -- The palms -- Immortelles -- Field mushrooms -- Lunar landscape -- Looking up -- For the year -- The real world of Manuel Cordova -- Another place -- One story -- Rain travel -- On the back of the boarding pass -- Last morning at Punta Arena -- Mirage -- On the old way -- Left open -- Stone village -- Turning -- A summer night -- After the spring.

ISBN

• 0679418903
• 9780679418900

LCCN

92014917

OCLC

• ocm25916802
• 25916802
• SCSB-1970401

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library