Summer Doorways
A Memoir
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | W. S. Merwin | ISBN: | 9781619028142 |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press | Publication: | December 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint | Language: | English |
| Author: | W. S. Merwin |
| ISBN: | 9781619028142 |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press |
| Publication: | December 1, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Language: | English |
A memoir of youth and travel through post-WWII Europe from the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet of Migrations.
In 1948, both the European continent and a young poet named William Stanley Merwin were embarking on periods of profound change. Twenty-one, newly married and just graduated from Princeton, Merwin made what at the time was considered an extraordinary journey to The Old Continent. Merwin says of the trip, “such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation.”
Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a pivotal time in his life, just a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus. The moment was, as the author writes, “an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer.” Traveling with him through his “splendidly detailed and sensuous descriptions,” readers have the privilege of glimpsing “recollections that capture lost time and trace the making of a poet” (Booklist).
A memoir of youth and travel through post-WWII Europe from the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet of Migrations.
In 1948, both the European continent and a young poet named William Stanley Merwin were embarking on periods of profound change. Twenty-one, newly married and just graduated from Princeton, Merwin made what at the time was considered an extraordinary journey to The Old Continent. Merwin says of the trip, “such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation.”
Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a pivotal time in his life, just a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus. The moment was, as the author writes, “an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer.” Traveling with him through his “splendidly detailed and sensuous descriptions,” readers have the privilege of glimpsing “recollections that capture lost time and trace the making of a poet” (Booklist).
