{"product_id":"the-pupil-isbn-9780375709647","title":"The Pupil","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a volume of astonishing range and extraordinary beauty: a major literary event that captures the spiritual anguish of our time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed by Peter Davison in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e as a poet who “engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match,” W. S. Merwin now gives us \u003ci\u003eThe Pupil.\u003c\/i\u003e These are poems of great lyrical intensity, concerned with darkness and light, with the seasons, and with the passing of time across landscapes that are both vast and minutely imagined. They capture the bittersweet joys of vanishing wilderness; anger at our political wrong-doings; the sensuality that memory can engender. Here are remembrances of the poet’s youth, lyrics on the loss of loved ones, echoes from the surfaces of the natural world. Here, too, is the poet’s sense of a larger mystery:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e... we know\u003cbr\u003efrom the beginning that the darkness\u003cbr\u003eis beyond us there is no explaining\u003cbr\u003ethe dark it is only the light\u003cbr\u003ethat we keep feeling a need to account for\u003cbr\u003e—from “The Marfa Lights”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Passionate, rigorous, and quietly profound, \u003ci\u003eThe Pupil\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential addition to the canon of contemporary American poetry—a book that finds W. S. Merwin’s singularly resonant voice at the height of its power.\"One of the greatest poets of our age. He is a rare spiritual presence in American life and letters (the Thoreau of our era).” —Edward Hirsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most distinctive and original voices in American poetry\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003eW. S. MERWIN was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and over the course of his life, he lived in many parts of the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHe was the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He died in 2019.\u003cb\u003eProphecy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the end of the year the stars go out \u003cbr\u003ethe air stops breathing and the Sibyl sings \u003cbr\u003efirst she sings of the darkness she can see \u003cbr\u003eshe sings on until she comes to the age \u003cbr\u003ewithout time and the dark she cannot see\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eno one hears then as she goes on singing \u003cbr\u003eof all the white days that were brought to us one by one \u003cbr\u003ethat turned to colors around us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea light coming from far out in the eye \u003cbr\u003ewhere it begins before she can see it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eburns through the words that no one has believed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Comet Museum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo the feeling comes afterward \u003cbr\u003esome of it may reach us only\u003cbr\u003elong afterward when the moment \u003cbr\u003eitself is beyond reckoning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebeyond time beyond memory \u003cbr\u003eas though it were not moving in \u003cbr\u003eheaven neither burning farther \u003cbr\u003ethrough any past nor ever to \u003cbr\u003earrive again in time to be \u003cbr\u003ewhen it has gone the senses wake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eall through the day they wait for it \u003cbr\u003ehere are pictures that someone took \u003cbr\u003eof what escaped us at the time\u003cbr\u003e only now can we remember","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304185843941,"sku":"NP9780375709647","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375709647.jpg?v=1767741112","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-pupil-isbn-9780375709647","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}