GardenTime

"The Guardian" says there are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. They suggest reading him. Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of perception, exquisite balance, and beauty according to the starred review of "The Moon before Morning" by "Booklist". "The New York Review of Books" claims that Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page.

During the difficult process of losing his eyesight, W.S. Merwin composed "Garden Time". When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated his new poems to his wife, Paula. In this book, our greatest poet channels energy from animated sounds and memories to remind us that "the only hope is to be the daylight." Here is an excerpt from "A Breath of Day":

Last night I slept on the floor of the sea, in an unsounded part of the ocean. In the morning it was a long way up through the dark streets of a silent country with no language in its empty houses until I had almost reached the surface of a morning that I had never seen. Then a breeze came to it, and I began to remember the voices of young leaves...

W.S. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for "The Shadow of Sirius" (Copper Canyon), and the National Book Award for "Migration: New and Selected Poems" (Copper Canyon). He lives in Hawaii.

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W.S.Merwin:W.S.MerwinservedasPoetLaureateoftheUnitedStatesandhasreceivedeverymajorliteraryaccolade,includingtwoPulitzerprizes,mostrecentlyforTheShadowofSirius(CopperCanyon)andtheNationalBookAwardforMigration:NewandSelectedPoems(CopperCanyon).