The Shadow of Sirius - Couverture souple

Merwin, W. S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852248548 ISBN 13 : 9781852248543

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2009

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

In his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright - Merwin points his oracular, unpunctuated poems toward his own past, admitting, 'I have only what I remember', and offering what may be his most personal, generous and empathic collection. Somehow, he manages to dissolve the boundaries between one time and another, seeming to look forward to the past or remember what has yet to happen - The poems show the marks of having weathered 'the complete course / of life', but also feel fresh and awake with a simplicity that can only be called wisdom: 'the morning is too / beautiful to be anything else'. Gorgeous poems about enduring love melt time as well, looking toward a moment when we will be no older than we ever were. --Publishers Weekly

In "The Shadow of Sirius", Merwin has given to 21st-century poetry what Matisse gave to 20th-century painting with his late-in-life paper cutouts: the irreducible essence of his art. It is a gift that unites past and present, a gift of genius and love, a gift that consecrates a poet's life. --Wichita Eagle

A fastidious, elegant writer, he is a calligrapher of consciousness, a fine penman aware that he is writing not on parchment but in water... Merwin is the unmistakable heir of the Emerson and Whitman who so ecstatically hymned flux. --M. Wynn Thomas, The Guardian

Biographie de l'auteur :

W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was Poet Laureate of the United States in 2010-11. He received most of the principal prizes in American poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the Bollingen Prize and the Tanning Prize and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007, prior to which his poetry had been unavailable in Britain for over 35 years. As well as being an internationally renowned poet, W.S. Merwin is the author of many classic translations, including editions of Neruda, Dante, The Song of Roland, The Poem of the Cid, and (from Bloodaxe) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. His titles from Bloodaxe are Selected Poems(2007); The Shadow of Sirius (2009), which won him his second Pulitzer Prize; The Moon Before Morning (2014); and Garden Time, (2016). All three of his final collections from Bloodaxe were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Born in New York City, he taught at several universities, and lived on the Pacific island of Maui, tending to his writing and to his garden of rare and endangered palm trees.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1852248548
• ISBN 13: 9781852248543
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128