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Summer doorways : a memoir / W.S. Merwin

By:

Merwin, W.S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Washington, D.C.] : Shoemaker & Hoard ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West , c2005.Description: 216 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781593760724

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DDC classification:

92 MER

Abstract: "In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W. S. Merwin made his first trip abroad." "Summer Doorways tells the story of the poet's youth a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952: Merwin describes life in a Europe that was already passing away at the close of World War II. He writes, "I would have the luck to discover, to glimpse, to touch for a moment some ancient, measureless way of living, of being in the world, some fabric long taken for granted, never finished yet complete, at once fixed and evanescent as a work of art, an entire age just before it was gone like a summer." Writing both lyrical and longing, Summer Doorways is certain to be placed high on the list of this writer's most important works."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		26327

"In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W. S. Merwin made his first trip abroad." "Summer Doorways tells the story of the poet's youth a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952: Merwin describes life in a Europe that was already passing away at the close of World War II. He writes, "I would have the luck to discover, to glimpse, to touch for a moment some ancient, measureless way of living, of being in the world, some fabric long taken for granted, never finished yet complete, at once fixed and evanescent as a work of art, an entire age just before it was gone like a summer." Writing both lyrical and longing, Summer Doorways is certain to be placed high on the list of this writer's most important works."--BOOK JACKET.

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