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DiscographyISBN 0300093632 (0-300-09363-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Dream Songsby W.S. Merwin , John BerrymanISBN 0374530661 (0-374-53066-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The First Four Books of Poems: Including a Mask for Janus, the Dancing Bear, Green with Beasts, the Drunk in the Furnaceby W.S. Merwin , John BerrymanISBN 0025843818 (0-02-584381-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Folding Cliffs : A Narrative of 19th-Century Hawaiiby W.S. Merwin , John BerrymanISBN 0375401482 (0-375-40148-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Iphigeneia at Aulisby W.S. Merwin , John BerrymanISBN 0195022726 (0-19-502272-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Iphigeneia at Aulisby W.S. Merwin , Euripides, George E. DimockISBN 0195077091 (0-19-507709-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lawrence Booth's Book of Visionsby Maurice Manning, W.S. MerwinISBN 0300089988 (0-300-08998-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Lice: Poemsby Maurice Manning, W.S. MerwinISBN 0246974397 (0-246-97439-7)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, Limited
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Purgatorio : A New Verse Translationby Maurice Manning, W.S. MerwinISBN 0375409211 (0-375-40921-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio : A New Verse Translation'Book summary:In the foreword to his version of the Purgatorio, W.S. Merwin dwells on the quasi-insuperable hurdles that any translator of Dante must face. Choosing just a single line from the first canticle, he asks: "How could that, then, really be translated? It could not, of course." This makes Dante's masterpiece sound like the literary equivalent of Mission: Impossible ("Your mission, Mr. Merwin, should you choose to accept it...") Happily, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet decided to give it a try. He spent several years wrestling with Dante's inexhaustible tercets, and rather than applying himself to the fire-and-brimstone-scented thrills of the Inferno, Merwin turned to the middle and most humane portion of the entire work: Purgatorio. It's here, in a kind of spiritual halfway house between heaven and hell, that the poem reaches a peak of tenderness and regret--and rises quite literally from the dead.
Merwin's version must be measured against a good many predecessors, from John Ciardi's reader-friendly approach to Allen Mandelbaum's free-versifying to Charles Singleton's prosaic trot. How does this Purgatorio stack up? Very decently indeed. Merwin is something of a strict constructionist, who wants to hew as closely as possible to the syntax and sound of the original Italian. Yet he's no Nabokovian naysayer, slapping himself on the wrist every time he deviates from Dante's text, and he's wisely thrown the rhymes overboard. That leaves him with enough flexibility to echo some of the poem's loveliest effects:
A sweet air that within itself was
Merwin also does a good job capturing Dante's asperity, including his near-proverbial response to a rebuke from main squeeze Beatrice in Canto XXX: "As a mother may seem harsh to her child, / she seemed to me, because the flavor / of raw pity when tasted is bitter." There are moments, of course, when the translator's taste for literalism gets him in trouble. When, for example, Dante is surrounded by a crowd of souls in the second canto, who are astonished to see one of the living among them, he describes them as "quasi oblïando d'ire a farsi belle." A difficult phrase to translate, yes, but Merwin's solution--"forgetting, it seemed, to go and see to their own beauty"--makes it sound as though they're late for an appointment at the hairdresser's. Still, these are minor flaws in a major and often marvelous piece of work. Can we look forward to a paradisiacal follow-up? --James Marcus [via]
unvarying struck me on the forehead,
a stroke no rougher than a gentle breeze,at which the trembling branches all together
bent at once in that direction where
the holy mountain casts its first shadow,without ever leaning over so far from
the upright as to make the small birds stop
the practice of their art in the treetops...
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Regions of Memory: Uncollected Prose, 1949-82by Maurice Manning, W.S. MerwinISBN 0252012410 (0-252-01241-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The River Sound : Poemsby Maurice Manning, W.S. MerwinISBN 0375404864 (0-375-40486-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sanskrit Love Poetryby W.S. Merwin , J. Moussaieff MassonISBN 0231042825 (0-231-04282-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Selected Poemsby Osip Mandelstam, Clarence Brown, W.S. MerwinISBN 0025794019 (0-02-579401-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror.
This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's "Conversation on Dante," an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process. [via]![Mandelstam, Osip: Selected Poems [of] Osip Mandelstam](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140421912.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "Mandelstam, Osip: Selected Poems [of] Osip Mandelstam")
Selected Poems [of] Osip Mandelstamby Osip Mandelstam, Clarence Brown, W.S. MerwinISBN 0140421912 (0-14-042191-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Twenty Love Poemsby W.S. Merwin , Pablo NerudaISBN 0140186484 (0-14-018648-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despairby Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, W.S. Merwin , Cristina GarciaISBN 0143039962 (0-14-303996-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Nobel Prizewinning poets most popular workWhen it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwins incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despairby W.S. Merwin , Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Cristina GarciaISBN 0142437700 (0-14-243770-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Nerudas most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poets most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.
- Includes twelve sketches by Pablo Picasso
- New introduction by Cristina García
- A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition pacjaged with French flaps
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Ultima Thuleby Davis McCombs, W.S. MerwinISBN 0300083173 (0-300-08317-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Walking Toward the Sunby Edward Weismiller, W.S. MerwinISBN 0300093586 (0-300-09358-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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