Items related to Travels: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Travels: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Softcover

 
9780679752776: Travels: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
“In Travels, one of the most beautiful and moving collections of poetry of his career, W. S. Merwin displays his narrative gifts to provide us with a book of deep historical resonance and luminous poetic grace...With each new book we have been reminded why, for forty years, he has remained a pivotal figure in the literary life of this country...[he] continues to earn his place as one of our most influential and compelling contemporary poets.”
—David St. John, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
One may imagine Rimbaud late in life at his Sudanese trading post, composing the sort of poems W.S. Merwin offers in Travels, winner of the 1994 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Employing a casually somber prosody of forward-falling lines and parachuted beginnings, and unified by what Elizabeth Bishop called "Questions of Travel," these poems unwind in long sentences reflecting long ideas. If the universe can be glimpsed in a grain of sand, then to Merwin a life of travel can be evoked by a single question, as when the tropical agriculturist Gregorio Bondar, returning from the Amazon to his native Ukraine in "The Moment of Green," is asked,
why he had come home to be shot
which they went on telling him he
seemed to have done and the answer
was something he could no longer
remember now that he was back
where words had always known him.
Swaying between tropic sensuality and spaghetti-western brutality, "The Real World of Manuel Còrdova" narrates the true story of a Spaniard kidnapped by indigenous Amazon River people. Although he ultimately flees, Còrdova is initiated into mystical knowledge in exchange for becoming his captors' go-between with the West, trading rubber to satisfy a desperate thirst for guns. These and other similar long poems illustrate Merwin's theme of renewal through danger, while shorter poems find him overcoming fears of becoming lost or regretting culpability in the many ways we poison the earth. Sonorous as Poe, restless as Bruce Chatwin, Merwin offers new ways of seeing our vulnerable relations with each other and the world. --Edward Skoog
From the Back Cover:
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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherKnopf
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0679752773
  • ISBN 13 9780679752776
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages160
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780679418900: Travels

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780679418900
Publisher: Knopf, 1992
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GridFreed
(North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Seller Inventory # 50-01617

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 18.03
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 5.45
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0679752773

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 23.09
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0679752773

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.81
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0679752773

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 26.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0679752773

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 29.24
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.30
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Merwin, W. S.
Published by Knopf (1994)
ISBN 10: 0679752773 ISBN 13: 9780679752776
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.79. Seller Inventory # Q-0679752773

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 57.89
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.13
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds