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 ...
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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."
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Remainder mark. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Previous owner's name blacked over. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 1593760728. ISBN/EAN: 9781593760724. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23447.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005; First Printing with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped ($24) dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. Clean, unread copy in new condition. Name written on fly-sheet, but no marking or writing in the book. Covers are clean and show no wear.