Description
This collection marks a significant stage in W. S. Merwin’s evolution toward a more spacious, meditative poetry shaped by Zen practice, island life, and a deepening attention to the natural world. Its poems explore impermanence, renunciation, memory, silence, and the fragile relationship between human experience and the living landscape. Moving between intimate observation and expansive reflection, the work captures both the discipline of letting go and the possibility of renewal. With characteristic lyric precision and quiet intensity, Merwin creates poems that invite readers to listen closely to what remains unsaid.
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paperback
Atheneum
Published Jan 1, 1983
83 pages
ISBN: 0689113838
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First Published
1983
Language
eng
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