The Mays of Ventadorn

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Price
$16.00  $14.88
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
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Pages
192
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.5 X 8.4 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781556595462
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About the Author
A preeminent voice in American literature with a prolific career spanning over half a century, Merwin has received nearly every accolade available to an American poet including Pulitzer Prizes for his books Carrier of Ladders (1971) and The Shadow of Sirius (2009). He currently lives in Haiku, Hawaii.
Reviews
"Merwin's conception of poetry is devotional in its service to other languages and cultures. Mays of Ventadorn is not only a story about troubadours handing down their songs through the ages, but about how poetry itself seems to engineer twists of fate in the lives of its acolytes" --The New York Review of Books "One of the finest senior U.S. poets stunningly evokes in prose the fabled romance and dark beauty of southwestern France. Seemingly channeling the troubadour spirit of the region, Merwin paints broad, but strikingly detailed, landscapes with his words, using language itself as a main character. He intermingles his personal experiences in the region with the songs of twelfth-century troubadours, illustrating superbly the flexibility of time in the historical cocoon of this ancient and endlessly resurrected locale. Often the prose sounds like poetry, and few other travel writings could aspire to the miraculously transporting quality of these crystalline sentences. The reader feels the restorative effects of this region and its poetry on Merwin, and cannot help but be touched. Like the songs of his troubadours, this little book soothes the soul while keeping the senses wide awake."--Booklist, on Mays of Ventadorn