The Vixen: Poems - Softcover

Merwin, W. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679766014 ISBN 13: 9780679766018

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

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A remarkable volume of poems about the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch).

“One of the most distinctive and original voices in American poetry" (The New Yorker) and winner of the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art delivers a major collection.

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W. S. MERWIN was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and over the course of his life, he lived in many parts of the world.
 
He was the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He died in 2019.

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This major collection, by a major American poet who has been awarded the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art, is concerned with the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France. "Merwin writes," J.D. McClatchy has said in THE NEW YORKER, "with one of the most distinctive and original voices in American poetry."

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ollection, by a major American poet who has been awarded the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art, is concerned with the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France. "Merwin writes, " J.D. McClatchy has said in THE NEW YORKER, "with one of the most distinctive and original voices in American poetry."

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679766014
• ISBN 13: 9780679766018
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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