The Shadow of Sirius

Merwin, W. S.

ISBN 10: 1556592841 / ISBN 13: 9781556592843

Edité par Copper Canyon Press, Port Townesend, Washington, 2008

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First Edition/First Printing, as stated on copyright page, with Copper Canyon Press number line denoting first printing, beginning with a 2.Hardcover in dustjacket. 117 pages. It is gratifying to read poetry that is this ambitious, that cares about vision and the possibilities of poetry, by a poet who is capable of so much change. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Mr. Merwin died on March 15, 2019. The poet was 91. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box. N° de réf. du vendeur 5062

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Titre : The Shadow of Sirius

Éditeur : Copper Canyon Press, Port Townesend, Washington

Date d'édition : 2008

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : As New

Etat de la jaquette : As New

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Book by Merwin WS

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, Guardian

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, Guardian