The River Sound: Poems

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Now in paperback, a book of lyric poems in Merwin's inimitable, mesmerizing style. These surround a central series of moving autobiographical poems, the longest, Testimony, which traces the path of his life, culminates with the stunning image of Merwin as a boy visiting New York -- told that the span of humankind's time on earth thus far is as a postage stamp resting atop the Empire State Building.Merwin's rhythms and sound evoke warm and cool showers of light and sound, immersing the reader in a passage through the natural world: human, tropical, temperate, timeless.Night TurnIn late summer after the day's heat is overwet leaves fragrance of ginger and kamanithe feel of the path underfoot still recallinga flow of water that found its way long agotoads are rustling under the lemon leaveslooking back I can see through the branchesthe light in the kitchen where we were standinga moment ago in our life together

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