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Title: The Pupil : Poems by W.S. Merwin ISBN: 0-375-70964-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Merwin yet
Comment: Hopefully not to surpass his credentials, I must comment on how wonderful this poetry is. I love it. I keep these poems on the back of my mind at all times just to remember them and how I felt reading them. Merwin is so exceptionally good at copying the moment into our lives through himself, using the poetry of the spirit to communicate something beautiful deep inside of us all.
Rating: 5
Summary: straight opaque
Comment: W S Merwin is a great poetic genius, & this book is my favorite of what I've read by him. He writes with uncompromising exactness & economy...& I don't think there's any punctuation in the whole book. The flaring experience of the first poems becomes a kind of alembic or magnifying glass focusing of the physical world into frictionless thinking in the journey to the last few blank pages. Poems such as the waltzingly elliptical "To the Spiders of this Room" & exponentially metaphorical "Flight of Language"...& all the rest...exhibit his lexical mastery; opening lines such as "Mist iridescent over the rice fields", the brilliant imagination. As a sidenote...is the poem "The Marfa Lights" in this book a hark back to James Tate's poem "Marfa"...?
Rating: 5
Summary: A transcendental Experience with one's self
Comment: This is one of the greatest books of modern poetry. It is a book for a quiet Sunday afternoon, sitting alone, let the words flow and guide one to the pervading essence. I can't begin to write as wonderful a review as Mr. Pipper wrote. I second everything he said and feel that as impossible as it may seem this poem makes one feel that you the reader are special for the reading of it and one wonders if there is another alien in the universe who can think or feel these words. The pupil is the poet, his childhood musings, not literal but as points of departure to create (what was that wonderful word Pipper used -- "capaciousness") -- yes that's it, a three dimensional experience of time and space. The entire book should really be read from cover to cover as the effect is transforming and accumulative.
Now if you think I said anything, you're as crazy as i am but to experience this poem is to make friends with yourself all over again.
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Title: The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment by W. S. Merwin ISBN: 1556590547 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Flower & Hand: Poems 1977-1983: The Compass Flower: Opening the Hand: Feathers from the Hill by W. S. Merwin ISBN: 1556591195 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The First Four Books of Poems by W. S. Merwin ISBN: 155659139X Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The River Sound : Poems by W.S. Merwin ISBN: 0375704353 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Vixen by W.S. Merwin ISBN: 0679766014 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 25 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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