The book of fables

The book of fables

W. S. Merwin, 1927-2019

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Published
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press [2007]
Language
English
Main Author
W. S. Merwin, 1927-2019 (-)
Item Description
Originally published as The miner's pale children (Atheneum, 1970) and Houses and travellers (Atheneum, 1977).
Physical Description
xii, 349 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781556592560
  • The dwelling
  • The bar
  • Within the wardrobes
  • The basilica of the scales
  • Tergvinder's stone
  • The Dachau shoe
  • Make this simple test
  • Postcards from the Maginot line
  • The weight of sleep
  • Our jailer
  • Shine on, tottering republic
  • Memory
  • The wedding march
  • Spiders I have known
  • The fountain
  • Being born again
  • In a dark square
  • Hope for her
  • The medal of disapproval
  • Forgetting
  • Marietta
  • Graphology
  • Phoebe
  • The trembler
  • The animal who eats numbers
  • New arrival
  • Unchopping a tree
  • Ends
  • The giants
  • The sentinel
  • Ethel's story
  • The dark sower
  • The death-defying Tortonis
  • The visitor
  • A thing of beauty
  • The second person
  • The moles
  • The islands
  • Blue
  • The songs of the icebergs
  • The sky beetle
  • The remembering machines of tomorrow
  • What we are named for
  • The billboard
  • The conqueror
  • The locker room
  • The answers
  • Tribesmen
  • Greetings to be addressed to the dead on the morning of their fifth year
  • Noon
  • The daughters of judgment
  • Companion
  • Where laughter came from
  • The cliff dance
  • The barriers
  • What happened while they were away
  • The eight cakes
  • Humble beginning
  • The smell of cold soup
  • The cheese seller
  • A lost tribe
  • The camel moth
  • Among mutes
  • The travel figment
  • The Baptist's singers
  • The roofs
  • The abyss
  • Knives
  • The hours of a bridge
  • Tracks
  • Memorials
  • The permanent collection
  • The June couple
  • The wives of the shipbreakers
  • From a mammon card
  • The uncle
  • The approved
  • A garden
  • The bandage
  • The diver's vision
  • The clover
  • An awakening
  • The egg
  • The herald
  • The first time
  • The fragments
  • Dawn comes to its mountain in the brain
  • The nest
  • Nothing began as it is
  • The first moon
  • The broken
  • Sand
  • The lonely child
  • The salt peddler
  • The water clock
  • The taste
  • A conversation
  • The river of fires
  • At one of the ends of the world
  • The reaper
  • The bride of the east
  • The footstep
  • August
  • The fly and the milk
  • The devil's pig
  • Iron
  • He who made the houses
  • Remorse
  • The element
  • Language
  • The great union
  • Vanity
  • A fable of the buyers
  • A miser
  • Speech of a guide
  • The chart
  • Clear lake
  • Echoes
  • The vision
  • Chronicle
  • What they say in the villages
  • Walls
  • At night
  • A tree
  • Martin
  • Brothers
  • The fugitive
  • The good-bye shirts
  • Poverty
  • Hunger Mountain
  • The entry
  • A suitor
  • The crossroads
  • A cabin
  • Port of call
  • The roof
  • The watches
  • The invalid
  • Path
  • The box
  • Late capital
  • The inheritance
  • Refugees
  • Treasure
  • The secret
  • Crusade
  • By the grain elevators
  • The fair
  • The new world
  • A voyage
  • The ship from Costa Rica
  • The old boat
  • On the map
  • Ten
  • A parcel
  • The ford
  • Wagon
  • A street of day
  • Watching a train
  • The field
  • Birds at noon
  • Pastures
  • Small oak place
  • Promontory
  • Harbor.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Over his long career, W.S. Merwin has written-well-in a staggering number of genres, including lost ones, like the fable. The Book of Fables brings back into print two classic books of short, haunting, mythic prose by this great poet. It should be on every poetry or fiction lover's shelf. (Copper Canyon [Consortium, dist.], $20 368p ISBN 978-1-55659-256-0) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

Since his earliest writing, Pulitzer Prize winner Merwin's poems have been built upon imagery, often a pileup of what Lorca called the duende and Robert Bly defined as the deep image. Given the leaps from line to line in these poems, the transition to brief prose pieces seemed a natural and welcome diversion. This volume includes everything from two o.p. collections-The Miner's Pale Children (1969) and House and Travelers (1977)-as well as new pieces, ranging from a paragraph to 13 pages. "The true present is the place where only one can stand, who is standing there for the first time," he says in one of the later pieces here. And this sense of self and other, with the speaker either part of a primitive collective mythology or a detached observer, pervades. Despite an underlying current of fear and doom, the surreal landscape is accepted without struggle. The two volumes published here appeared before the recent prose poem and flash fiction movements became fashionable in American literature, but Merwin's writing adds another dimension to both genres.-Rochelle Ratner, formerly with Soho Weekly News, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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