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W. S. Merwin

    Walden alebo život v lese
    The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
    Flower & Hand: Poems 1977-1983
    A Mask for Janus
    Voices. Aphorisms Antonio Porchia
    The Book of Fables
    • A Mask for Janus

      • 88 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania

      A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

      A Mask for Janus2020
      4,0
    • The Book of Fables

      • 349 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      “Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.” — The Atlantic MonthlyW.S. Merwin’s acclaimed short prose pieces — many of which first appeared in The New Yorker — blur the distinction between fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir. Reminiscent of Kafka, Borges, and Beckett, they evoke mythical patterns and unlikely adventures and raise questions about art, reality, and meaning. As the, itself fabled, Saturday Review once remarked, the prose pieces have “astonishing range and power.”The Book of Fables comprises all the short prose from two of Merwin's out-of-print collections, The Miner’s Pale Children and Houses and Travellers. The pieces run from a single sentence to a dozen pages and create a poetic landscape both sere and sensuous.

      The Book of Fables2007
      4,3
    • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

      Second Edition

      • 656 stránok
      • 23 hodin čítania

      Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa

      The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry2003
      4,0
    • Walden alebo život v lese

      • 280 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      Dva roky, dva mesiace a dva dni strávil americký básnik a mysliteľ H. D. Thoreau na samote v prírode, vo vlastnoručne zhotovenej chatrči pri jazere Walden Pond. K životu bez civilizačných výdobytkov ho priviedla túžba porozumieť svetu, ktorého bol súčasťou, snaha nájsť v ňom svoje pravé miesto a rozlíšiť to, čo je dôležité od všetkého nepodstatného. Po návrate medzi ľudí spísal svoje pozorovania do knihy, ktorá patrí dodnes k najkrajším oslavám prírody, individuálnej slobody, dobrodružstva sebaobjavovania a jednoduchého, naplneného života. Dvesto rokov od narodenia autora ju v rukách konečne drží aj slovenský čitateľ.

      Walden alebo život v lese1999
      3,9
    • Brings back into print all the poems from The Compass Flower (1977), Feathers from the Hill (1981), and Opening the Hand (1983).

      Flower & Hand: Poems 1977-19831997
      4,1
    • Voices. Aphorisms Antonio Porchia

      • 44 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania

      Voices is a collection of poetic aphorisms written over several decades by Antonio Porchia and translated by W.S. Merwin. Spontaneous, succinct, and wise, these aphorisms have the spiritual character of the world's great religions-especially Buddhist and Taoist epigrams-and the subtle attention to language of our best literature. Voices is Porchia's only book, which he augmented and revised throughout his life. By the time of his death, it had become a classic, published in over a dozen different Spanish-language editions; today there are also translations into German, French, and Italian. This new bilingual edition, revised and updated with an introduction by Merwin, brings back into print one of Latin America's great literary enigmas.

      Voices. Aphorisms Antonio Porchia1988
      4,2