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The Rain In the Trees : Poems By W. S. Merwin
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merwin,W. S. (William Stanley)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopt, 2008.
- Summary:
- "The poems in this book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it"--Cover.
- Contents:
- Late spring
- West wall
- The first year
- Native trees
- Touching the tree
- Night above the avenue
- Now renting
- Glasses
- Shadow passing
- History
- Notes from a journey
- Pastures
- After school
- Empty water
- Rain at night
- Waking to the rain
- The salt pond
- Summer '82
- Before us
- The sound of the light
- Sky in September
- Anniversary on the island
- Sight
- The solstice
- Coming to the morning
- Being early
- Travelling together
- The inevitable lightness
- The crust
- Mementos
- Print fallen out of somewhere
- Utterance
- Paper
- Thanks
- At the same time
- Coming to hear
- To the insects
- After the alphabets
- The superstition
- The overpass
- Snow
- For the departure of a stepson
- Airport
- Liberty
- Journey
- Memory
- The duck
- Hearing the names of the valleys
- The strangers from the horizon
- Conqueror
- Native
- Place
- Witness
- Chord
- Losing a language
- The lost originals
- Term
- Kanaloa
- The horizons of rooms
- Knock
- The biology of art
- The archaic maker
- Tracing the letters
- The rose beetle.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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