{"product_id":"the-rain-in-the-trees-9780394758589","title":"The Rain in the Trees","description":"\u003cb\u003eA volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it--f\u003cb\u003erom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and \"one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era\" (Edward Hirsch). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA literary event--a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry--\u003ci\u003eThe Rain in the Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his \u003ci\u003eOpening the Hand. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem--so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as \u003ci\u003eThe Lice, The Moving Target\u003c\/i\u003e and (most recently) \u003ci\u003eOpening the Hand, \u003c\/i\u003e he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMerwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. S. Merwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780394758589","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713441796233,"sku":"9780394758589","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_bc006456-8873-49ee-aeb6-f1a88750aeb6.jpg?v=1719611690","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-rain-in-the-trees-9780394758589","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}