The Second Four Books of Poems - Softcover

Merwin, W. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590547 ISBN 13: 9781556590542

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1992

Synopsis

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii.

W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy."

Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium:
East Window (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1
The First Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X
Flower & Hand (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5

About this title

About the Author:

W. S. Merwin is the author and translator of more than fifty books. He is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and winner of a National Book Award, a Tanning Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and other honors. His most recent books are The Moon before Morning, The Shadow of Sirius, The Book of Fables, and Present Company.

Review:

Acclimatization
After The Harvests
After The Solstice
Age
Air
The Animals
Animals From Mountains
Animula
Another Year Come
Apparition
The Approaches
April
As By Water
As Though I Was Waiting For That
Ascent
Ash
The Asians Dying
At The Same Time (2)
Avoiding News By The River
Ballade Of Sayings
Banishment In Winter
Before That
Beginning
Beginning Of The Plains
Beyond You
The Birds On The Morning Of Going
The Black Plateau
The Blessing
Bread
Bread And Butter
Bread At Midnight
The Bridges
By Day And By Night
By The Cloud Path
By The Cloud Path
Caesar
The Calling Under The Breath
A Calm In April
Cat Ghosts
The Chaff
The Chase
The Child
The Church
The Clear Skies
The Cold Before The Moonrise
The Cold Before The Moonrise
Come Back
The Continuo
The Crossroads Of The Time World Etc
Crows On The North Slope
The Cry
Cuckoo Myth
The Current
The Day
Daybreak
Dead Hand
The Dead Hive
Death Of A Favorite Bird
A Debt
December Among The Vanished
December Night
Departure's Girlfriend
The Different Stars
The Diggers
The Distances
Divinities
Division
Do Not Die
Dogs
A Door (1)
A Door (2)
A Door (3)
A Door (4)
The Dragonfly
The Dream Again
The Dreamers
The Dry Stone Mason
Dusk In Winter
Early Janaury
Early Janaury
Early One Summer
Economy
Edouard
Elegy
Encounter
An End In Spring
End Of Summer
Envoy From D'aubigne
Evening
Exercise
Eyes Of Summer
Fear
February
Finally
Finding A Teacher
The Finding Of Reasons
The First Darkness
A Flea's Carrying Words
Flies
Fly
Footprints On The Glacier
For A Coming Extinction
For Now
For Saying That It Won't Matter
For The Anniversary Of My Death
For The Grave Of Posterity
The Forbears
Foreword
Fourth Psalm: The Cerements
The Free
From A Series
Full Moonlight In Spring
The Gardens Of Zuni
Gift
Glass
Glimpse Of The Ice
The Gods
Habits
The Hands
The Herds
History Of Alchemy
A Hollow
A Hollow
Home For Thanksgiving
Homeland
Horses
How We Are Spared
Huckleberry Woman
The Hulk
The Hydra
I Live Up Here
In A Clearing
In Autumn
In The Gorge
In The Life Of Dust
In The Night Fields
In The Time Of The Blossoms
In The Winter Of My Thirty-eighth Year
The Indigestion Of The Vampire
Inscription Facing Western Sea
Inscription For A Burned Bridge
Instructions To Four Walls
Invocation
Is That What You Are
An Island In The Harbor
It Is March
The Judgment Of Paris
Kin
Lackawanna
The Lake
The Lantern
Lark
The Last One
Last People
Laughter
Lemuel's Blessing
Letter
A Letter From Gussie
Little Horse
Looking Back
Looking East At Night
Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise
Lost Month
The Man Who Writes Ants
Man With One Leaf In October Night
Meeting
Memory Of The Loss Of Wings
Midnight In Early Spring
Mist
The Moths
The Mountains
Mountan Town
The Mourner
My Brothers The Silent
My Friends
The Nails
New Moon In November
New Of The Assassin
The Next
The Night Of The Shirts
Night Wind
No
Noah's Raven
Nomad Songs
Not These Hills
Now And Again
A Number
October
Old Flag
The Old Roast
The Old Room
On Each Journey
On The Silent Anniversary Of A Reunion
One Time
One Way
Other Travelers To The River
The Owl
The Palace
The Palace
The Palace
The Paw
Peasant; A Prayer To The Powers Of This World
The Pens
Peril
Pieces For Other Lives
Pilate
The Piper
The Place Of Backs
Plane
The Plaster
The Plumbing
The Poem
The Poem
The Port
A Prayer Of The Eyes
The Present
Presidents
The Prints
Provision
Psalm: Our Fathers
Purgatory
Quince
Recognition
The Removal
Resolution
Reunion
The River Of Bees
The Room
The Room
Route With No Number
The Sadness
The Saint Of The Uplands
Savonarola
A Scale In May
The Search
Second Psalm: The Signals
Second Sight
The Second Time
September
She Who Was Gone
Ship
The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
Shoe Repair
Shore
Sibyl
A Sickness At The Equinox
Signs
The Silence Before Harvest
The Singer
Sire
The Sleeping Mountain
Snowfall
Some Last Questions
Something I've Not Done
South
Span
Spring
Spring
Standards
Still Afternoon Light
The Students Of Justice
Summits
Sunset After Rain
Sunset After Rain
Surf-casting
Tale
Teachers
Their Week
Things
Third Psalm: The September Vision
This Day Of This Month Of This Year Of This
The Thread
To Be Sung While Still Looking
To My Brother Hanson
To The Hand
To The Rain
To Where We Are
Tool
The Track
The Trail Into Kansas
Traveling
Under Black Leaves
Under The Migrants
Unfinished Book Of Kings
The Unwritten
Vocations
Voice
Walk-up
Wanting A Soul In The South
The War
Watchers
The Water Of The Suns
The Wave
The Way Ahead
The Way To The River
We Continue
The Web
The Well
Western Country
The Wharf
The Wheels Of Trains
When The Horizon Is Gone
When The War Is Over
When You Go Away
Whenever I Go There
Who It Is
The Widow
Wish
Witnesses
Woman From The River
A Wood
Words
Words From A Totem Animal
The Writing On A Fallen Leaf
The Writing On A Fallen Leaf
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1556590547
• ISBN 13: 9781556590542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320