Here is the first volume in a definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, which is also available as a deluxe boxed set, The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (described below).
Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin’s poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades— from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets’ Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate—he has fashioned a poetics unmistakably his own, marked by a stripped-down, unpunctuated style that foregrounds his responsiveness, spiritual insights, and facility with unadorned, elemental language. Now, with this two-volume edition, Merwin becomes only the second living poet to have his work collected by The Library of America. Here are such landmark books as his debut volume A Mask for Janus (1952), which shows the young poet engaged in a fruitful dialogue with Auden and Berryman; The Lice (1967), with its impassioned political poems about the Vietnam War and ecological catastrophe; The Vixen (1996), which offers vivid recollections of southwestern France; the epic verse novel The Folding Cliffs (2008), set in nineteenth-century Hawaii; and The Shadow of Sirius (2008), with its “late poems / that are made of words / that have come the whole way / they have been there.”
0 有用 春夏旦夕之间 2023-10-14 20:58:02 中国台湾
烘云托月 如盐着水 之逆向工程 一经点出 万殊一辙 予说过 默温的诗 犹诸波浪 自海洋的梦中醒来 计白当黑 是为「天狼星的阴影」 (阿岡本当代人之喻 当取于此) 善手明徽 高张清心 空山基 彗孛飞流 寂素练要 虚实相副 气味极厚 一点露珠凝冷,波影,满池塘。绿茎红艳两相乱,肠断,水风凉。 与温庭筠同读,有惊喜 回顾始觉惊鸿去云远。 —— 重读过艾略特,又觉得此为艾略特之一体
0 有用 别 2022-07-17 15:06:14
总是在平平无奇想要放弃的尽头又被其中一首给震住,这样的阅读体验,也很符合作者对这本书的定位了——“a passion for the momentary countenance of the unrepeatable world”。
0 有用 孤山饮雾 2022-10-23 09:51:29 浙江
比照阅读,不过一些诗节排布似乎和中文版收录的诗歌有点区别。
0 有用 春夏旦夕之间 2023-10-14 20:58:02 中国台湾
烘云托月 如盐着水 之逆向工程 一经点出 万殊一辙 予说过 默温的诗 犹诸波浪 自海洋的梦中醒来 计白当黑 是为「天狼星的阴影」 (阿岡本当代人之喻 当取于此) 善手明徽 高张清心 空山基 彗孛飞流 寂素练要 虚实相副 气味极厚 一点露珠凝冷,波影,满池塘。绿茎红艳两相乱,肠断,水风凉。 与温庭筠同读,有惊喜 回顾始觉惊鸿去云远。 —— 重读过艾略特,又觉得此为艾略特之一体
0 有用 孤山饮雾 2022-10-23 09:51:29 浙江
比照阅读,不过一些诗节排布似乎和中文版收录的诗歌有点区别。
0 有用 别 2022-07-17 15:06:14
总是在平平无奇想要放弃的尽头又被其中一首给震住,这样的阅读体验,也很符合作者对这本书的定位了——“a passion for the momentary countenance of the unrepeatable world”。