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1	Migration: New & Selected Poems more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist This definitive volume by one of America's greatest poets is essential for all poetry collections. see all copies from $2.82! new only from $14.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Shadow of Sirius more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly. "In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth, and his heartache at time's passing, Merwin has become instantly ... see all copies from $8.77! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Present Company more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist "The intentions of Merwin's poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper. He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth, and underground."-"The Atlantic Monthly" "W.S. Merwin is our strongest poet."-"The New York Times Review of Books" In this new ... see all copies from $5.37! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Summer Doorways: A Memoir more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist The poet W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) writes evocatively of two summers in his life in the late 40s, when, as a Princeton student, he was tutor to a wealthy young lad in New Jersey and in France. Merwin's look back at a long-gone privileged way of life and his own coming-of-age adventures--both in the U.S. and on his first trip to Europe--is as lyrical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Unframed Originals: Recollections more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist This is Merwin's memoir about growing up in a stern and dour Presbyterian family in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mays of Ventadorn more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist Pulitzer-prize winning poet W.S. Merwin traces the origins of the troubadours in 12th century Provance as he relates his own experience as a frequent visitor to southern France in this striking memoir, for the National Geographic Directories series. W.S.Mervin, one of the century's great American poets, turns his lyrical eye to the legacy of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more books like this by W S Merwin (Translator) add to wishlist A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text. It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthur's court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will ... see all copies from $3.26! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	East Window: The Asian Translations more books like this by W S Merwin (Preface by) add to wishlist Acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin's translations are as breathtakingly elegant as a Japanese Zen rock garden. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has translated poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as diverse as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Persian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Japanese. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $13.23! \| SVS
9	Selected Poems more books like this by W S Merwin (William Stanley) add to wishlist W.S. Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. While he has long been viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his poetry has been unavailable in Britain for over 35 years. This new selection ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $13.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Second Four Books of Poems more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the ... see all copies from $4.26! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| SVS
11 view cover	The First Four Books of Poems more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist Half Roundel I make no prayer For the spoilt season, The weed of Eden. I make no prayer. Save us the green In the weed of time. Now is November; In night uneasy Nothing I say. I make no prayer. Save us from the water That washes us away. What do I ponder? All smiled disguise, Lights in cold places, I make no prayer. Save us from air That ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam more books like this by Osip Mandelstam, W S Merwin (Introduction by), Clarence Brown (Introduction by) add to wishlist Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator ... see all copies from $5.18! new only from $5.18! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Voices more books like this by Louisa S Jones, Antonio Porchia (Translator), W S Merwin (Contributions by) add to wishlist Antonio Porchia (18861968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by translator W.S. Merwin, this bilingual volume brings back into ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $8.40! \| first editions
14 view cover	Transparence of the World more books like this by Jean Follain, W S Merwin (Translator) add to wishlist Throughout WWII, French poet Jean Follain wrote poems that revisit the provinces of personal and cultural history. His quietly phrased, brief devotions are -described as "miniatures," yet are monumental, capturing the pressure of history upon daily moments. By reducing the world to its small objects, every detail, every image becomes imbued with ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Walden and Civil Disobedience: 150th Anniversary more books like this by Henry David Thoreau, W S Merwin (Introduction by) add to wishlist Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Walden and Civil Disobedience: Or, Life in the Woods more books like this by Henry David Thoreau, Peter Miller (Afterword by), W S Merwin (Introduction by) add to wishlist Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walden" is a record of his experiment in a simple life and his contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. This book includes the famous essay, "On the Duty of Civil ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| SVS
17	The Lice more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes more books like this by W S Merwin (Translator), Juan Goytisolo (Introduction by) add to wishlist Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: "Don Quixote" and "Lazarillo de Tormes," the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as "Vanity Fair" and "Huckleberry Finn." Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it ... see all copies from $4.83! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Ends of the Earth more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist These essays by the W. S. Merwin cover a variety of subjects, including his love of his Hawaiian home, his sojourns in Greece, his fascination with monasteries and travel stories, and an extensive and poignant memoir of the Nation magazine publisher George Kirstein. Merwin is an award-winning poet, but it is obvious from this prose collection--his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	Travels more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist This series of 49 unpunctuated poems, Merwin's 19th collection, includes narratives based on the lives of such historical personages as Rimbaud, the explorer Cordova, the naturalist David Douglas, and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Opening the Hand: Poems more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist see all copies from $8.49! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Spanish Ballads more books like this by W S Merwin (Translator) add to wishlist When W.S. Merwin was a young poet, Ezra Pound advised him to "read the seeds of poetry, not the twigs." As the ballads of Spain are among those essential seeds, Merwin set out to select and translate a collection of them into English. Few, if any, popular poetic traditions compare to that of the ballads in the culture of Spain. These terse, ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $8.25! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Song of Roland more books like this by W S Merwin (Translator) add to wishlist The greatest surviving medieval French epic, The Song of Roland chronicles the deeds and doings of the valiant Roland, nephew to Charlemagne, who fights to his death against the Saracens. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity and Islam, The Song of Roland remains a vivid portrayal of medieval life and ideals, of knightly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro more books like this by Vicente Huidobro, W S Merwin (Translator), Stephen Fredman (Translator) add to wishlist 'The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro' is the first major collection of the great Chilean writer's work to appear in English. Throughout Latin America and Europe, Huidobro is considered one of the most significant poets of our century and is recognized as one of the seminal figures in modern Spanish-language poetry. see all copies from $7.48! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The Lost Upland more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist Technically short stories, these three pieces are heavily autobiographical evocations of the fading agricultural world of the Dordogne, where Merwin lived for many years. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the nine best books of 1992. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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