Summer Doorways (ePub)
A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W. S. Merwin made his first trip abroad. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded...
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In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W. S. Merwin made his first trip abroad. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation.” Thus begins his most recent memoir, Summer Doorways.
Through his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the years next spent as a tutor for the children of privilege living abroad, Summer Doorways tells the story of the poet's youth in the few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952. And it describes life in Europe that was already passing away at the close of the Second World War. He writes, "I would have the luck to discover, to glimpse, to touch for a moment some ancient, measureless way of living, of being in the world, some fabric long taken for granted, never finished yet complete, at once fixed and evanescent as a work of art, an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer.”
Through his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the years next spent as a tutor for the children of privilege living abroad, Summer Doorways tells the story of the poet's youth in the few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952. And it describes life in Europe that was already passing away at the close of the Second World War. He writes, "I would have the luck to discover, to glimpse, to touch for a moment some ancient, measureless way of living, of being in the world, some fabric long taken for granted, never finished yet complete, at once fixed and evanescent as a work of art, an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer.”
Autoren-Porträt von W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin is one of our most distinguished poets and translators and is the acting United States Poet Laureate. A twotime recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, he has also been honored with the Bollingen Prize and a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. In 1995 he received the first Dorothea Tanning Prize. He lives and works in Hawaii.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: W. S. Merwin
- 2015, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: CATAPULT
- ISBN-10: 161902814X
- ISBN-13: 9781619028142
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2015
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“Delightful . . . The pleasure of this journey is that Merwin shares his eyes and ears with us—without telling us what to think . . . The summer ended, but even now it continues to bear fruit.” —New York Times“Masterful: a refreshing break from our tell-all world.” —Kirkus
“In recollecting his adventures, Merwin adopts a lyrical style, vividly evoking memories of locales and situations. Readers will grow with him and feel, as he did, that a provincial can indeed become a poet.” —Library Journal
“In 34 brief, dreamy chapters, esteemed American poet and translator Merwin meanders back to the late 1940s and early 1950s summers of his youth and inexperience… Merwin’s book traces lost worlds.” —Publishers Weekly
“Merwin is as refined and entrancing a prose stylist as he is a poet…His splendidly detailed and sensuous descriptions (what a memory he has), especially of postwar Europe, are redolent in mood and precious historically. And he takes great pleasure in turning intriguing, exquisitely crafted portraits and anecdotes into lustrous recollections that capture lost time and trace the making of a poet.” —Booklist
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