Research Catalog

Title

Flower & hand : poems 1977-1983 / W.S. Merwin.

Author

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

ix, 172 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• The Heart -- The Wine -- The Drive Home -- The Next Moon -- The Snow -- The Arrival -- Apples -- An Encampment at Morning -- Migration -- November -- The Horse -- A Contemporary -- Fishing -- Guardians -- Fate -- On the Mountain -- Vision -- The Deluge -- Robin -- City -- Line -- The Estuary -- The Rock -- The Counting Houses -- The Helmsmen -- Numbered Apartment -- St. Vincent's -- The Shuttles -- The Vineyard -- Crossing Place -- Summer Night on the Stone Barrens -- September Plowing -- Working into Autumn -- Memory of Summer Facing West -- The Love for October -- Autumn Evening -- Kore -- Passage -- In the Pass -- Spring Equinox Full Moon -- The Morning -- Summer Doorway -- The Hosts -- Islands -- Mountain Day -- Snowline -- Twilight -- Late Snow -- June Rain -- White Summer Flower -- Trees -- Grass Beginning July -- The Coin -- Ferry Port -- The Banquet -- Service -- Some of the Masts -- North Wind -- Island -- Junction --
• Remembering a Boatman -- Assembly -- Old Garden -- The Fig Tree -- The Windows -- The Falcons -- The Trestle -- Talk of Fortune -- The Fountain -- Sun -- The Flight -- Time of Tree Cutting -- Summer Canyon -- Sound of Rapids of Laramie River in Late August -- Fireweed -- In the Red Mountains -- Road -- Island City -- By the Mango Trees -- Warm Pastures -- Sheep Clouds -- The Waters -- The Oars -- Sunset Water -- The Waving of a Hand -- Strawberries -- A Pause by the Water -- Son -- Sun and Rain -- The Houses -- Apparitions -- Birdie -- The Burnt Child -- Yesterday -- Talking -- After a Storm -- The Cart -- Photograph -- Unknown Forebear -- A Family -- Shaving Without a Mirror -- Visitation -- The Red House -- Tidal Lagoon -- Green Water Tower -- High Water -- Line of Trees -- A House to the West -- The Cow -- Questions to Tourists Stopped by a Pineapple Field -- The Briefcase -- Late Wonders -- Going -- Standing Nowhere -- Coming Back in the Spring --
• Happens Every Day -- Sheridan -- The Fields -- Palm -- The Shore -- The Night Surf -- The Quoit -- The Middle of Summer -- James -- Berryman -- A Birthday -- The Sea Cliffs at Kailua in December -- Ali -- The School on the Roof -- Going from the Green Window -- The Truth of Departure -- One Night -- Emigre -- What is Modern -- Direction -- The New Season -- Hearing -- The Black Jewel.

ISBN

1556591195 (pbk.)

LCCN

96035616

OCLC

• 35235405
• ocm35235405

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries