The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target/the Life/the Carrier of Ladders/Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment - Brossura

Merwin, W. S.

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ISBN 10: 1556590547 ISBN 13: 9781556590542

Casa editrice: Copper Canyon Pr, 1992

Riassunto

<div><b>W.S. Merwin</b> 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.<br><br>W.S. Merwin's <i>Second Four Books of Poems</i> 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."<br><br><b>Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium:</b><br><i>East Window</i> (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1<br><i>The First Four Books of Poems</i> (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X<br><i>Flower & Hand</i> (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5</div>

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Copper Canyon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556590547
• ISBN 13: 9781556590542
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile