The Pupil: Poems - Hardcover

Merwin, W. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037541276X ISBN 13: 9780375412769

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

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A startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world. 10,000 first printing.

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W. S. Merwin has been awarded most of the major prizes in American poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry. He and his wife live on Maui, where he tends to his writing and to his garden of rare and endangered palm trees.

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Prophecy

At the end of the year the stars go out
the air stops breathing and the Sibyl sings
first she sings of the darkness she can see
she sings on until she comes to the age
without time and the dark she cannot see

no one hears then as she goes on singing
of all the white days that were brought to us one by one
that turned to colors around us

a light coming from far out in the eye
where it begins before she can see it

burns through the words that no one has believed






The Comet Museum

So the feeling comes afterward
some of it may reach us only
long afterward when the moment
itself is beyond reckoning

beyond time beyond memory
as though it were not moving in
heaven neither burning farther
through any past nor ever to
arrive again in time to be
when it has gone the senses wake

all through the day they wait for it
here are pictures that someone took
of what escaped us at the time
only now can we remember

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 037541276X
• ISBN 13: 9780375412769
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 91
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