Unframed Originals: Recollections - Softcover
In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer’s conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.
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About the Author:
W. S. Merwin is the author more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translation, including The Carrier of Ladders, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has been honored with the Bollingen Award, the first Tanning Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and many others. He has lived for many years in Hawaii.
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"A narrative of exceptional poignance. An American odyssey by an emigre from his own country."
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- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1619027755
- ISBN 13 9781619027756
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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