Description

A pivotal early collection of poetry, this volume explores myth, memory, spiritual uncertainty, love, and the shifting relationship between the self and the natural world. Its poems move between lyric intensity and dreamlike suggestion, capturing moments of revelation while resisting easy interpretation or fixed conclusions. The work reflects a poet in transition, balancing inherited forms and literary influences with a distinctive, increasingly indirect voice. Rich in imagery and philosophical resonance, it established the imaginative range and searching sensibility that would define one of the major American poets of the twentieth century.

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The Moving Target

W. S. Merwin

paperback

Macmillan Pub Co

Published Jan 1, 1963

ISBN: 9780689101922

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First Published

1963

Language

eng

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