Brilliant Water

by Christopher Merrill

Overview

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

Christopher Merrill is Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996120
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Christopher Merrill has published four collection of poetry, including Watch Fire and is the author of several books of non-fiction inclusing the recent, Things of a Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. He has translated work from several languages and his works include Anxious Moments by Ales Debeljak. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

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