The Rain in the Trees by W S Merwin

The Rain in the Trees by W S Merwin

A literary event -- a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry -- The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication five years ago of his Opening the Hand.
Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem -- so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as The Lice, The Moving Target and (most recently) Opening the Hand, he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.
The poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.
Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.

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ISBN 13	9780394758589
ISBN 10	0394758587
Title	The Rain in the Trees
Author	W S Merwin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	1988-03-12
Number of pages	96
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