Present Company

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Merwin, W. S., 811 Me
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Merwin, W. S.	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	811 Me	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

To this May -- To the soul -- To a reflection -- To the face in the mirror -- To waiting -- To impatience -- To age -- To lingering regrets -- To my teeth -- To the ancient order of legs -- To my legs -- To the tongue -- To the gift of sight -- To the corner of the eye -- To the shadow -- To another William -- To history -- To the unlikely event -- To a departing companion -- To Lili's walk -- To a friend travelling -- To the sorrow string -- To -- -- To the consolations of philosophy -- To grief -- To absence -- To the knife -- To prose -- To duty -- To Billy's car -- To the present visitors -- To the present tense -- To the air -- To Muku dreaming -- To the dust of the road -- To that stretch of canal -- To the blue stork -- To the sound of the gate -- To the stone paddock by the far barn -- To a few cherries -- To my mother -- To my grandfathers -- To Aunt Margie -- To my father's houses -- To my brother -- To Micky -- To Doris -- To the old -- To the dog stars -- To the tray dancers -- To the mistakes -- To luck -- To the blank spaces -- To the morning (1) -- To Monday -- To the long table -- To the margin -- To the middle -- To the next time -- To the light of September -- To the words -- To the grass of autumn -- To ashes -- To Zbigniew Herbert's bicycle -- To the coming winter -- To the smell of water -- To the beginning of rain -- To a mosquito -- To glass -- To purity -- To salt -- To the lightning -- To the escape of light -- To a leaf falling in winter -- To the fire -- To smoke -- To forgetting -- To the wires overhead -- To a tortoiseshell lyre -- To the gods -- To the veil -- To the way back -- To the thief at the airport -- To the afterlife -- To finding again -- To the surgeon Kevin Lin -- To days of winter -- To a friend turning fifty -- To being late -- To the morning (2) -- To the moss -- To an old acacia -- To the story -- To a dormouse -- To the parting year -- To the new year -- To the unfinished -- To Paula -- To myself -- To the happy few -- To the book.
"In this new work from one of America's foremost poets, W. S. Merwin guides readers to universal themes through worldly specifics. Similar in tone and effect to Pablo Neruda's Elemental Odes, every poem in Present Company directly address the human encounters and ordinary objects of daily life, as in "To the Face in the Mirror" or "To Salt."" "These poems to the world are fully engaged with living, are serious yet playful, inspiriting and full of wonder. Merwin recasts the particulars of the personal, and makes them profoundly universal. Whether writing of an imaginary vehicle in "To Zbigniew Herbert's Bicycle" or watching fireworks from a distance in "To the Coming Winter," his poems create a rare and compelling intimacy."--BOOK JACKET.

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There's a story about how... submitted by lisa on August 28, 2021, 9:26pm ... someone---another poet---came to visit Merwin, who was swinging in a swing outside, grinning ear to ear. Asked what he was so happy about, Merwin said "I just rhymed 'Sodom' with 'bottom'!"