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The River Sound : 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. Knopf, 2006.
- Summary:
- A collection of poems by a Pulitzer Prize winner. In Testimony, a poem on old age, he writes of people who would give anything "to glimpse a place where they were small / or in love once and be able / to capture in that second sight / what in the plain original / they missed and this time get it right.".
- Contents:
- Ceremony after an amputation
- The stranger
- The gardens of Versailles
- Chorus
- What is a garden
- A night fragrance
- Night turn
- Before a departure in spring
- Remembering
- Another river
- Echoing light
- Returns after dark
- 227 Waverly Place
- Sixth floor walk-up
- Legend
- Clear water
- Harm's way
- Whoever you are
- The causeway
- The Chinese mountain fox
- The old year
- Lament for the makers
- Suite in the key of forgetting
- Testimony
- Inauguration
- A claim
- That music
- The wren
- Syllables
- Wanting to see
- Orioles
- Jeanne Duval
- Sheep passing
- Moissac
- Seed time
- Frame
- Shore birds
- Waves in August
- Travelling west at night
- This time
- The notes
- Left hand
- Late glimpse
- Accompaniment
- Field note
- The string.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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