Selected Translations
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Published on 2. April 2013
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-1-55659-409-0 (ISBN)
Description
Selected Translations is a life's work from one of America's greatest poets and translators. Since his undergraduate years at Princeton University, W.S. Merwin has always placed translation as a necessary element of his own poetry. Working from a belief that there is “no separation between the human imagination and the rest of life," Merwin has nurtured a quintessential body of poetry that consistently goes beyond the individual self in search of a shared voice that speaks for and from all living things. His achievement as a translator is singular, ranging across two dozen languages and over two millennia, and reinforces his standing as one of the most significant writers of our time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-409-0 (9781556594090)
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Person
W.S. Merwin: W.S. Merwin, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2010–11, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon, 2009), and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2005). Author and translator of over fifty books, Mr. Merwin lives in Hawaii and France.