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

Title The miner's pale children / W.S. Merwin
Edition First edition
Published New York : Atheneum, 1970

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 W'PONDS  810.54 M5764 A2/M  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 235 pages ; 25 cm
Contents (Cont.) The answers -- Tribesmen -- Greeting to be addressed to the dead on the morning of their fifth year -- Noon -- The daughters of judgment -- Companion -- Where laughter came from -- The cliff dance -- The barriers -- What happened while they were away -- The eight cakes -- Humble beginning -- The smell of cold soup -- The cheese seller -- A lost tribe -- The camel moth -- Among mutes -- The travel figment -- The Baptist's singers -- The roofs -- The abyss -- Knives -- The hours of a bridge -- Tracks -- Memorials -- The permanent collection -- The June couple -- The wives of the shipbreakers -- From a Mammon card -- The uncle -- The approved -- A garden -- The bandage -- The diver's vision -- The clover -- An awakening -- The egg -- The herald -- The first time -- The fragments -- Dawn comes to its mountain in the brain
The dwelling -- The bar -- Within the wardrobes -- The basilica of the scales -- Tergvinder's stone -- The Dachau shoe -- Make this simple test -- Postcards from the Maginot Line -- The weight of sleep -- Our jailor -- Shine on, tottering republic -- Memory -- The wedding march -- Spiders I have known -- The fountain -- Being born again -- In a dark square -- Hope for her -- The medal of disapproval -- Forgetting -- Marietta -- Graphology -- Phoebe -- The trembler -- The animal who eats numbers -- New arrival -- Unchopping a tree -- Ends -- The giants -- The sentinel -- Ethel's story -- The dark sower -- The death-defying Tortonis -- The visitor -- A thing of beauty -- The second person -- The moles -- The islands -- Blue -- The songs of the iceberg -- The sky beetle -- The remembering machines of tomorrow -- What we are named for -- The billboard -- The conqueror -- The locker room
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 76124973
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