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The Rain in the Trees

The Rain in the Trees

The Rain in the Trees
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The Rain in the Trees Soft cover - 1988

by Merwin, W. S

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Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to poet Bruce Berlind and his wife: "For Bruce and JoAnn, love from Bill, Nov 1996, Colgate." Sixth printing. Uncommon signed in this paperback edition. Bruce Berlind was an old friend of Merwin's, as they graduated from Princeton within a year of each other and both studied with John Berryman there. Berlind was a longtime English professor at Colgate and ran its visiting writer series. There's a good story about how Merwin and Hayden Carruth dined and drank wine together at Berlind's house while Carruth played hooky from the National Book Award ceremony. All hungover, Berlind and Merwin drove over to Carruth's place the next morning to tell him he had in fact won the award.
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Details

  • Title The Rain in the Trees
  • Author Merwin, W. S
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf, New York
  • Date 1988
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ABE-1648185100425
  • ISBN 9780394758589 / 0394758587
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.2 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 0.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87046081
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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From the rear cover

The poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.

About the author

W. S. MERWIN was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and over the course of his life, he lived in many parts of the world.

He was the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He died in 2019.

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