The Rain in the Trees
$32.27
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
12 March 1988
Summary
A literary event–a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry–The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin’s first book since the publication five years ago of his Opening the Hand. Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem–so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394758589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0394758587 |
| Author: | W.S. Merwin |
| Publisher: | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 12 March 1988 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 152mm x 231mm |
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About The Author
W.S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin has been awarded most of the principal prizes in American poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry. He lives and works on Maui, where he maintains a garden of rare palm trees.
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