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Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

The river sound : poems / by W.S. Merwin.

1st ed.

New York : A.A. Knopf : Random House [distributor], 1999.

viii, 133 pages ; 25 cm

A collection of poems by a Pulitzer Prize winner. In Testimony, a poem on old age, he writes of people who would give anything "to glimpse a place where they were small / or in love once and be able / to capture in that second sight / what in the plain original / they missed and this time get it right."

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019. Ceremony after an amputation.

Poems. Selections

Ceremony after an amputation -- The stranger -- The gardens of Versailles -- Chorus -- What is a garden -- A night fragrance -- Night turn -- Before a departure in spring -- Remembering -- Another river -- Echoing light -- Returns after dark -- 227 Waverly Place -- Sixth floor walk-up -- Legend -- Clear water -- Harm's way -- Whoever you are -- The causeway -- The Chinese mountain fox -- The old year -- Lament for the makers -- Suite in the key of forgetting -- Testimony -- Inauguration -- A claim -- That music -- The wren -- Syllables -- Wanting to see -- Orioles -- Jeanne Duval -- Sheep passing -- Moissac -- Seed time -- Frame -- Shore birds -- Waves in August -- Travelling west at night -- This time -- The notes -- Left hand -- Late glimpse -- Accompaniment -- Field note -- The string.

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