{"product_id":"garden-time","title":"Garden Time","description":"\"There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. Read him.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance, and clarifying beauty.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review of \u003ci\u003eThe Moon before Morning \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page.\" --Helen Vendler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.S. Merwin composed \u003ci\u003eGarden Time \u003c\/i\u003e during the difficult process of losing his eyesight. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated his new poems to his wife, Paula. In this gorgeous, mindful, and life-affirming book, our greatest poet channels energy from animated sounds and memories to remind us that \"the only hope is to be the daylight.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"A Breath of Day\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast night I slept on the floor of the sea\u003cbr\u003e in an unsounded part of the ocean\u003cbr\u003ein the morning it was a long way up\u003cbr\u003ethrough the dark streets of a silent country\u003cbr\u003ewith no language in its empty houses\u003cbr\u003euntil I had almost reached the surface\u003cbr\u003eof a morning that I had never seen\u003cbr\u003ethen a breeze came to it and I began\u003cbr\u003eto remember the voices of young leaves . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of Sirius\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), and the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eMigration: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon). He lives in Hawaii.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W S Merwin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46354699157740,"sku":"9781556594991","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46354699190508,"sku":"9781556595943","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781556594991.jpg?v=1744286571","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/garden-time","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}