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Necessities
Christopher Merrill
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Description for Necessities
Paperback. Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers of the marvelous, these poems are parables, which deepen with each reading. Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, more than a dozen edited volumes and books of translations, and five ... Read more
"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers of the marvelous, these poems are parables, which deepen with each reading. Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, more than a dozen edited volumes and books of translations, and five ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
White Pine Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Buffalo, United States
ISBN
9781935210467
SKU
V9781935210467
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99-5
About Christopher Merrill
Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, more than a dozen edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction. His writings have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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