Summer Doorways: A Memoir

By: W. S. Merwin

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Synopsis: 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 was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation,” writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty-one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 224 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781619028142
Related ISBNs:: 9781593760724
Publisher:: Counterpoint
Date of Addition:: 01/13/21
Copyrighted By:: William S. Merwin
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.