The Vixen

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Summary: Unbearably beautiful!
Review: Composed by a master poet in the prime of his gifts, this astonishing collection of poems rather accompanies one like wind does, like the beautiful common thoughts of our soiled minds and hearts do, when we're not looking. Each poem is a new radiance- transparent, mighty, striking our daily consciousness like an arrow of air might. The themes of common sight, of restlessness, of the illusions of time and touch, are woven with such skill that one can breathe these poems rather than read them, live out their heart as though it were one's own creed, and so leave like a snow-print upon one's interior faint marks of the truest art imaginable, having silently manifested and yet changed everything. If you believe you have encountered the art of poetry and have not read W. S. Merwin, get this book. It is an experience that renews humility.

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Summary: One of Merwin's Best--and Most Original
Review: These moving poems stay with you. With their graceful flatness, many feel like strange, shimmering fragments of narrative; there is an interplay of mystery and revelation that opens onto a new--or forgotten--realm of poetic experience.