Summer Doorways: A Memoir

W. S. Merwin

ISBN 10: 1593760728 / ISBN 13: 9781593760724

Published by Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc, New York, New York, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Summer Doorways: A Memoir
• Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593760728
• ISBN 13: 9781593760724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer."

About the Author

W. S. Merwin is the author of more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translation, includingThe Carrier of Ladders, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has been honored with the Bollingen Award, the first Tanning Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and many others. He has lived for many years in Hawaii.