{"product_id":"9780394758589","title":"The Rain in the Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary event—a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry—\u003ci\u003eThe Rain in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication five years ago of his \u003ci\u003eOpening the Hand\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003e The Lice, The Moving Target \u003c\/i\u003eand (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013107433712,"sku":"9780394758589","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780394758589_p0.jpg?v=1769892402","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394758589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}