East Window: Poems from Asia

by W.S. Merwin

This collection furthers Copper Canyon's project of reintroducing Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. Merwin's out-of-print works, drawing together poems from his classic collections Asian Figures, Sun at Midnight, and his two volumes of Selected Translations. Gathered here are translations and versions of poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as varied as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, Persian, and Vietnamese. The book contains poems from some of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556590911
• ISBN13: 9781556590917
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"