W. S. Merwin Bücher

A 95 page biography by W.S. Merwin precedes Chamfort's selected writings, along with an introduction by essayist-critic Louis Kronenberger. A poet and translator, Merwin sheds light on the man while Chamfort (1740-1794) is shedding light on his world.

Pablo Nerudas erfolgreichstes Buch Pablo Nerudas Gedichtband »Zwanzig Liebesgedichte und ein Lied der Verzweiflung« erschien erstmals 1924, als der Autor noch keine 20 Jahre alt war. Dieses Buch begründete seinen literarischen Ruhm in der spanisch-sprachigen Welt und weit darüber hinaus. Mit diesen Gedichten hat sich Pablo Neruda einen festen Platz unter den großen Dichtern der Weltliteratur erobert und auf Dauer gesichert. • Kein Buch mit Liebesgedichten dürfte weltweit einen annähernd großen Leserkreis wie dieses gefunden haben. • Deutsch von Fritz Vogelgsang • Zweisprachige Ausgabe: spanisch/deutsch in einem eigenen Band veröffentlicht.

The winner of the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Craig Arnold’s Shells, which was acclaimed as “a gifted collection of daring writing” by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The book is an intriguing set of variations on the theme of identity. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self and a hard case that protects the self against the assaults of the world. His poems narrate amatory and culinary misadventures. “Friendships based on food,” Arnold writes, “are rarely stable”—this book is full of wildly unstable and bewitching friendships and other significant relations.

“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.

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.

Brings back into print all the poems from The Compass Flower (1977), Feathers from the Hill (1981), and Opening the Hand (1983).

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

Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts unternahm der amerikanische Schriftsteller Henry David Thoreau ein bis dato einzigartiges Daseinsexperiment, dem das Werk Walden folgte: Für zwei Jahre zog er sich tief in die Wälder Massachusetts’ zurück. Dabei ging es Thoreau nicht um simple Weltflucht, sondern um die Erforschung menschlicher Existenz, um ein wahrhaft bewußtes Leben und die Beschränkung auf das Wesentliche. Seit ihrem Erscheinen 1854 wurden Thoreaus höchst kunstvoll arrangierte Aufzeichnungen (Walden) ganzen Generationen von Lesern zur Quelle der Inspiration, darunter Leo Tolstoi und Mahatma Gandhi, der Naturschutzbewegung wie der 68er-Generation. Walden, gebundene Ausgabe, Anaconda.

A collection of poems selected by poets as those that first inspired them includes timeless favorites and insightful essays by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners including Roethke, Pinsky, and Heaney.