Book description
America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure…
Why read it?
1 author picked Summer Doorways as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a memoir of a poet I love.
I sank into the book’s languid mood—Merwin’s early peripatetic and poetic life sometimes seems to have no beginning and no end. There is a lot of wandering in the book, but Merwin’s sensibility gets you through to the last page.
You come away with a strong sense of what it means to engage with poetry, mythology, and nature.
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