Name: The Book of Fables
Price: 400.00 ZAR
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Author: W. S. Merwin
ISBN: 9781556592560

Type

Physical Book

Author

W. S. Merwin

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

349

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

1556592566

ISBN13

9781556592560

Synopsis "The Book of Fables "

“Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.”—The Atlantic MonthlyW.S. Merwin’s acclaimed short prose—many of which first appeared in The New Yorker—blur the distinction between fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir. Reminiscent of Kafka, Borges, and Beckett, they evoke mythical patterns and unlikely adventures and raise questions about art, reality, and meaning. As the Saturday Review remarked, they have “astonishing range and power.” The Book of Fables is an affordable paperback of all the short prose from two out-of-print collections, The Miner’s Pale Children and Houses and Travellers. The pieces run from a single sentence to a dozen pages and create a poetic landscape both severe and sensuous. From “A Garden”: You are a garden into which a bomb once fell and did not explode, during a war that happened before you can remember. It came down at night. It screamed, but there were so many screams. It was heard, but it was forgotten. It buried itself. It was searched for but it was given up. So much else had been buried alive . . . Poet and translator W.S. Merwin has long been committed to artistic, political, and environmental causes in both word and deed. He has received nearly every major literary accolade, including the 2005 National Book Award in Poetry for Migration. Merwin lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palms.

W. S. Merwin

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Nacido en Nueva York (EE.UU.) en 1927, el poeta y prosista William Stanley Merwin, se ha alzado con la mayoría de los premios más importantes de la poesía estadounidense, incluyendo dos veces el premio Pulitzer –en 1971 por The Carrier of Ladders y en 2009 por La sombra de Sirio–, el Bollingen Prize, el Tanning Prize, el Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award y, en 2010, fue nombrado Poeta Laureado de los Estados Unidos.
Además de ser un poeta de renombre internacional, es autor de muchas traducciones ya clásicas de obras como El poema del Mío Cid (1959), La chanson de Roland (1962), El Lazarillo de Tormes (1963), o Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1969). Durante los años sesenta se manifestó contra la guerra de Vietnam, pero su poesía jamás cayó en lo panfletario; mantuvo su estatura a pesar de que en esos años decidió romper la sintaxis y hacer de su lenguaje un ambiguo y continuo recorrido por la Palabra. Ha mostrado interés por las antiguas culturas, ya sean la quechua, la prehispánica o las ancestrales culturas de Oriente.

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