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Poetry. FLOWER & HAND collects all of Merwin's poetry from "The Compass Flower (1977), "Feathers from the Hill" (1981), and "Opening the Hand" (1983), returning to print a large body of work following "The Second Four Books" (Copper Canyon Press, 1993) by a poet who, over half a century, has redefined American poetry.

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Poetry. FLOWER & HAND collects all of Merwin's poetry from "The Compass Flower (1977), "Feathers from the Hill" (1981), and "Opening the Hand" (1983), returning to print a large body of work following "The Second Four Books" (Copper Canyon Press, 1993) by a poet who, over half a century, has redefined American poetry.

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Publishers Weekly
To uncork vintage Merwin is to find poetry that has lost none of its elegance. In this selection of poems taken from The Compass Flower (1977), Feathers From the Hill (1982) and Opening the Hand (1983), Merwin is often less concerned with the flow of a sentence than he is with the call and response of individual words that bubble through his unpunctuated lines. Hear the echo of a downpour, for instance: "The rain of the white valley the clear rain / the rain holding the whole valley while it falls / the mountain rain the high rain onto the mountain." Elsewhere, as the collection's title suggests, the elements of the landscape and the textures of the body hope to forget their boundaries and meld: "frost would design me and dew would disappear on me/ sun would shine through me/ I would be green with white roots." In lieu of commas Merwin sometimes places a double-spaced gap in mid line. The caesura is especially effective in a series of poems that focus on the death of a father: "As the shadow closed on the face once my father's/ three times leaning forward far off she called/ Good night in a whisper from before I was born/ later through the burial a wren went on singing." The empty space reflects the son's loss; the silence amplifies its surrounding imagery. (Mar.)
Library Journal
As a counterpart to The Second Four Books (Copper Canyon, 1993), the publisher collects here the poetry of supremely accomplished poet, memoirist, and translator Merwin over six years, gathering three smaller volumes. These poems of what probably ought to be understood as the poet's middle period show the reactions of an outstanding creative mind to the recurrent concerns of poetry-death, travel, love, and change. Their music lies not so much in the sounds of words as in the images themselves: the "long jagged broken string of bird song" made by unsorted keys in "The Apple"; or, in "Kore," "the candles [that] flutter on the stairs of your voice." These quiet, unpunctuated poems often feel like translations, not so much from another language as from another condition. An excellent opportunity for libraries to begin or complete their collection of the works of one of our most important poets; highly recommended.-Graham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, Mass.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781556591198
  • Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/1996
  • Pages: 175
  • Sales rank: 721,696
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

W.S. Merwin is the author of over fifty books of poetry, prose, and translations. He has earned every major literary prize, most recently the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Hawaii where he raised endangered palm trees.

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