Name: Selected Translations
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Author: W. S. Merwin
ISBN: 9781556594373

Type

Physical Book

Author

W. S. Merwin

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

420

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.5 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9781556594373

Synopsis "Selected Translations"

"This collection of W.S. Merwin's translations is a deeply worthy book, beautifully produced, and meant to last as a physical object and cultural offering."--World Literature Today"None surpass him. This Selected Translations is amazing in scope, mastery, themes, artistry, imagination: a testimony to a lifetime of consequential work."--Three Percent"An absorbing experience that resonates with a multitude of cultural viewpoints and traditions, spanning centuries of human history. An astonishing tour de force."--Midwest Book ReviewSelected Translations is the lifework from one of America's greatest poets and translators. Dedicated to the art of translation since his undergraduate years at Princeton, W.S. Merwin achieved an unmatched oeurve of translated poems from every corner of the earth, from dozens of languages. This massive achievement is an essential volume for every library, public and private.Basho's Tomb at Konpuku-ji TempleYosa BusonI will die toolet me be a dry grass flowerhere by the monumentIn the wild winter windthe voice of the water is tornfalling across the rocksI bury the charcoal embersin the ashesmy hut is covered with snowI wear this hoodrather than look as thoughI belonged to the drifting worldW.S. Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius, and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems. Author and translator of over fifty books, Mr. Merwin lives in Hawaii and France.

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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