Glück, Louise
Contents: Firstborn -- The house on marshland -- Descending figure -- The triumph of Achilles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GLUMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: "The First Four Books of Poems gathers all the poetry from W. S. Merwin's early books, including his celebrated debut, A Mask for Janus, which won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952. In these poems, readers can witness the maturation of a commanding poetic voice, one which has profoundly marked American literature in the latter half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013