{"product_id":"the-book-of-fables-9781556592560","title":"The Book of Fables","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.S. Merwin's acclaimed short prose--many of which first appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e--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 \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e remarked, they have \"astonishing range and power.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Fables\u003c\/i\u003e is an affordable paperback of all the short prose from two out-of-print collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Miner's Pale Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouses and Travellers.\u003c\/i\u003e The pieces run from a single sentence to a dozen pages and create a poetic landscape both severe and sensuous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"A Garden\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou are a garden into which a bomb once fell and did not explode, during a war that happened before you can remember. It came down at night. It screamed, but there were so many screams. It was heard, but it was forgotten. It buried itself. It was searched for but it was given up. So much else had been buried alive . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and translator \u003cb\u003eW.S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e has long been committed to artistic, political, and environmental causes in both word and deed. He has received nearly every major literary accolade, including the 2005 National Book Award in Poetry for \u003ci\u003eMigration. \u003c\/i\u003eMerwin lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556592560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.36w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2007 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2007 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W. S. Merwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659688767644,"sku":"9781556592560","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ea4c57f5-0b82-42ab-9826-7f3b1f4b9347.jpg?v=1603895277","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-book-of-fables-9781556592560","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}