Brilliant Water

by Merrill, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781893996120
• ISBN10: 1893996123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: White Pine Pr

Summary

A striking new collection by a poet W. S. Merwin calls "gifted, audacious, and accomplished." A prolific journalist, Merrill's most recent work, two non-fiction books on the crisis in the Balkans, have received tremendous critical acclaim. With this collection, he returns for the first time in seven years to the form closest to his heart: poetry. "No anxiety of influence prevails here; nor is there evidence of a desire to follow any models too closely. Rather, there is a generosity that names names, offers praise, then contributes something new. Merrill lives in a landscape of names, surrounded by eloquent scraps of language allowing him to chant the senses' progress through the world.-John Elder, The Los Angeles Times a_? Available for National Poetry MonthChristopher Merrill is Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

I
The Lake	13	(20)
II
The Fence	33	(1)
Reckonings	34	(1)
Day Lilies: Instructions and an Elegy	35	(1)
Lines on the Winter Solstice	36	(1)
The Bees	37	(1)
Three Weeds	38	(2)
Mercy	40	(1)
Dog Days in Vermont	41	(5)
Rosehips	46	(1)
Door	47	(1)
Grammar	48	(1)
Inflections	49	(2)
Sagebrush	51	(1)
Sestina on Six Words	52	(2)
Vicente Huidobro
From Something on the Death of the Elder Sabines (Part One)	54	(2)
Jaime Sabines
Ash Wednesday	56	(1)
The Garden	57	(2)
Should, Should Not	59	(4)
III
Where the Smoke Comes From	63