Garden Time
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556594992 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. Merwin: W.S. W. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon) and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon).
Michael Bever said darkness has not extinguished it. "Light shines in darkness and darkness has not extinguished it."Darkness and light together his magnum opus.
In this gorgeous, mindful, and life-affirming book, our greatest poet channels energy from animated sounds and memories to remind us that "the only hope is to be the daylight."From "A Breath of Day":Last night I slept on the floor of the sea in an unsounded part of the oceanin the morning it was a long way upthrough the dark streets of a silent countrywith no language in its empty housesuntil I had almost reached the surfaceof a morning that I had never seenthen a breeze came to it and I beganto remember the voices of young leaves .W.S. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon), and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon). Merwin is one of them. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated his new poems to his wife, Paula. "There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin composed Garden Time during the difficult process of losing his eyesight. Read him." —The Guardian"Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance, and c
Read him while he is still contemporary' - Fiona Sampson, Guardian . Merwin is one of them. 'There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S