{"product_id":"the-second-four-books-of-poems","title":"The Second Four Books of Poems","description":"W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii.\n\nW.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, \"from preterition to presence to prophecy.\"\n\nOther books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium:\nEast Window (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1\nThe First Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X\nFlower \u0026amp; Hand (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1556590547\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1556590547.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Merwin, W. S.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43494434144317,"sku":"BVV.1556590547.A","price":7.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1556590547-0.jpg?v=1787271471","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-second-four-books-of-poems","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}