Name: migration,new & selected poems
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Author: W. S. Merwin
ISBN: 9781556592614

Type

Physical Book

Author

W. S. Merwin

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Language

English

Pages

545

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN

1556592612

ISBN13

9781556592614

Synopsis "migration,new & selected poems"

Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times.Winner of the National Book Award for PoetryNamed by O as one of the 20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own"The poems in Migration speak a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection."--National Book Award judges' statement"The publication of W. S. Merwin's selected and new poems is one of those landmark events in the literary world."--Los Angeles TimesW. S. Merwin is the most influential American poet of the last half-century--an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Migration: New and Selected Poems is that case. This 540-page distillation--selected by Merwin from fifteen diverse volumes--is a gathering of the best poems from a profound body of work, accented by a selection of distinctive new poems.As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Merwin was advised by John Berryman to "get down on your knees and pray to the muse every day." Migration represents the bounty of those prayers. Over the last fifty years, Merwin's muse has led him beyond the formal verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engage a vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of Merwin's work: "I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn't take so much from it into my own life." W. S. Merwin is the author of over fifty books of poetry, prose, and translation. He lives in Hawaii, where he raises endangered palm trees.

W. S. Merwin

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Nacido en Nueva York (EE.UU.) en 1927, el poeta y prosista William Stanley Merwin, se ha alzado con la mayoría de los premios más importantes de la poesía estadounidense, incluyendo dos veces el premio Pulitzer –en 1971 por The Carrier of Ladders y en 2009 por La sombra de Sirio–, el Bollingen Prize, el Tanning Prize, el Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award y, en 2010, fue nombrado Poeta Laureado de los Estados Unidos.
Además de ser un poeta de renombre internacional, es autor de muchas traducciones ya clásicas de obras como El poema del Mío Cid (1959), La chanson de Roland (1962), El Lazarillo de Tormes (1963), o Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1969). Durante los años sesenta se manifestó contra la guerra de Vietnam, pero su poesía jamás cayó en lo panfletario; mantuvo su estatura a pesar de que en esos años decidió romper la sintaxis y hacer de su lenguaje un ambiguo y continuo recorrido por la Palabra. Ha mostrado interés por las antiguas culturas, ya sean la quechua, la prehispánica o las ancestrales culturas de Oriente.

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