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Present Company

W.S. Merwin

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English
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
07 September 2007
""One of America's greatest living poets.""-The Washington Post Book World

""Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex. Classical in their lines of inquiry and restraint yet vital in their attunement to the here and now, these personal odes and musings on daily existence and the cycles of life are, by turns, bemused and exalted . . . each poem infuses the collection with buoyancy and light.""-Booklist

Now in paperback, W.S. Merwin's latest masterwork-which reviewers have described as ""meditative,"" ""playful,"" and ""lithely beautiful""-guides readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. Akin to Pablo Neruda's Elemental Odes, every poem in Present Company directly addresses the people and things of daily life, as in ""To the Thief at the Airport"" or ""To Lingering Regrets.""

""To This May""

They know so much more now about the heart we are told but the world still seems to come one at a time one day one year one season and here it is spring once more with its birds nesting in the holes in the walls its morning finding the first time its light pretending not to move always beginning as it goes
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Imprint:   Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   240g
ISBN:   9781556592331
ISBN 10:   1556592337
Pages:   152
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

W.S. Merwin is one of America's leading poets. His prizes include the 2005 National Book Award for his collected poems, Migration, the Pulitzer Prize, the Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lannan Foundation. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and translations. He lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palm trees.

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