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  Title

  The shadow of Sirius

  Author

  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-  

  Publisher:

  Copper Canyon Press,

  Pub date:

  c2008.

  Pages:

  xii, 117 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9781556592843

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9781556592843
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    811.54 MER	1	Book	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  The shadow of Sirius
  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-
  
  
  

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  The shadow of Sirius
  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-
  

  Personal Author:

  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-

  Title:

  The shadow of Sirius / W.S. Merwin.

  Publication info:

  Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2008.

  Physical description:

  xii, 117 p. ; 24 cm.

  General Note:

  Poems.

  Contents:

  The nomad flute -- Blueberries after dark -- Still morning -- By the avenue -- Note -- Accompaniment -- Without knowing -- The song of the trolleys -- From the start -- Far along in the story -- The pinnacle -- Child light -- Empty lot -- No -- The piano -- Secrets -- A likeness -- Raiment -- Europe -- Photographer -- Traces -- Inheritance -- A broken glass -- Lament for a stone -- A note from the Cimmerians -- A codex -- Beyond question -- Youth -- By dark -- Calling a distant animal -- Night with no moon -- Good night -- At the bend -- Into the cloud -- Another dream of burial -- A ring -- Little soul -- Trail marker -- Dream of Koa returning -- Cargo -- Going -- The curlew -- Nocturne -- Day without a name -- Recognitions -- Escape artist -- The mole -- Eye of shadow -- A letter to Ruth Stone -- Worn words -- A letter to Su Tung-p'o -- Bash¯o's child -- The odds -- The long and the short of it -- Unknown age -- My hand -- What the bridges hear -- The first days -- Heartland -- Long afternoon light -- Cave -- The morning hills -- Cold spring morning -- Near field -- To Paula in late spring -- Youth of grass -- The silence of the mine canaries -- Walled place above the river -- A horse heaven -- One of the butterflies -- Parts of a tune -- Nocturne II -- White note -- Gray herons in the field above the river -- No shadow -- The making of amber -- September's child -- Remembering the wings -- Shadow hand -- Barrade -- Into October -- Lights out -- Falling -- Grace note -- One valley -- The old trees on the hill -- A single autumn -- Lake shore in half light -- A momentary creed -- Rain light -- Just this -- The laughing thrush -- Animula : a late visitation.

  Subject term:

  American poetry--21st century.