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The Shadow of Sirius

by W S Merwin

About this title: 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 ... read more

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Sep 23, 2009
By Emily, Hagerstown, MD

"I put a star next to the titles of poems that I want to remember forever. It's a very elite ranking. Still, it was nearly impossible to not put a star next to every title in this collection. Phenomenal."

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Aug 29, 2009
By Susan, Phoenixville, PA

"This is a gorgeous book. "I have with me," Merwin says, "all that I do not know/I have lost none of it." But he also has with him all that he does know, and it shines everywhere in these poems. He admits his own preference, in his eighties of turning first to "late poems" because those are the ones "that are made of words/that have come the whole way." There's a lifetime in this book, a luminous panorama - and always with the awareness of how short a distance the whole way really is. When you're 25, 20 years is nearly a lifetime ago. But when you reach an age where a moment brilliantly clear in your mind shocks you with the realization that it's 50 years past, time becomes a shape-shifter. Merwin captures perfectly the sensations and epiphanies that occur in such moments. Like Updike's, his poems in old age are probably his best."

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Aug 25, 2009
By Diane, San Diego, CA

"The more I read of this book the more I appreciated the power of his unpunctuated blocks of text. The voice of the poems became an interior voice in my own head/body, thinking to it/myself, puzzling out basic mysteries of time and being. Merwin won't let me skim his poems - I have to slow down if I want to understand what he's saying and when I do, I usually find I'm glad I did. My best experience of Merwin to date."

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Aug 11, 2009
By Catherine, Belgrave, Australia

"This is glorious poetry - the language is simple and direct, but the poems are often mysterious, hinting at meanings, ambivalent and prayer-like. I've memorised two of the poems in My Year of Remembering Poems and they are like talismans. It did occur to me that perhaps one has to have lived a long life as a poet to finally be able to write poems like these. This book was published when Merwin was 78 or 79 years old. The poems are almost visionary in places but also aren't afraid to take beautifully humble subjects - an old dog, for instance - and embrace the poet's world and memory in the same measured singing language."

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