Beschrijving
‘metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.”the Atlantic Monthly
W.S. Merwin’s acclaimed short prose’many of which first appeared in The New Yorker’blur the distinction between fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir. Reminiscent of Kafka, Borges, and Beckett, they evoke mythical patterns and unlikely adventures and raise questions about art, reality, and meaning. As the Saturday Review remarked, they have ‘astonishing range and power.\
