Description
Set largely in France’s Dordogne region, this evocative collection of poems explores the deep entanglement of human lives, natural landscapes, and the histories embedded within them. Amid old houses, ancestral voices, rural inhabitants, and traces of medieval and mythic time, a recurring vixen emerges as an elusive figure of beauty, change, and loss. Elegiac and meditative, the poems consider impermanence, memory, separation, and the limits of perception while reflecting on the preservation of a threatened world. Written in a compressed, richly allusive style, the collection moves fluidly between intimate experience, natural observation, and the vast cycles of history.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Mar 25, 1997
88 pages
ISBN: 9780679766018
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Vixen by W. S. Merwin.