The Moon Before Morning

von W S Merwin

120 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- W.S. Merwin is one of the most recognizable names in the poetry world.- PBS story on Merwin is in the works (air date TBD).- W.S. Merwin is one of the best-selling poets in the United States.- Two-time winner of the Pulitzer prize.- Merwin's last three books with Copper Canyon won major awards, in order: The National Book Award (Migration); the Bobbitt Prize (Present Company); the Pulitzer Prize (The Shadow of Sirius)- The Moon before Morning is the much anticipated follow-up to The Shadow of Sirius- Merwin has been concerned with human relationship to nature throughout the course of his poetry career. This book blends autobiography with defense of nature as only Merwin can.- Merwin has been a practicing Buddhist since the late 70's and is a believer in deep ecology, a form of environmentalism that proposes that the existence of all life-forms (including humans) are linked on a deep and co-dependent level. - Merwin lives in Hawaii on a former pineapple plantation that he has spent over thirty years restoring to its original rainforest state.