{"product_id":"the-rain-in-the-trees","title":"The Rain in the Trees","description":"\u003cb\u003eA volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it--f\u003cb\u003erom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and \"one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era\" (Edward Hirsch). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA literary event--a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry--\u003ci\u003eThe Rain in the Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his \u003ci\u003eOpening the Hand. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem--so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as \u003ci\u003eThe Lice, The Moving Target\u003c\/i\u003e and (most recently) \u003ci\u003eOpening the Hand, \u003c\/i\u003e he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMerwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53862726893934,"sku":"9780394758589","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_dba4811d-6fe0-4cea-a27d-347c9812f858.jpg?v=1780240098","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-rain-in-the-trees","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}