The Dancing Bears

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.

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Hardcover. First edition. Half-title and title leaves with a printer's flaw resulting in them being creased and a bit folded, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Merwin to poet Elizabeth McFarland. A very nice copy of Merwin's second book.

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Item #417938 The Dancing Bears. W. S. MERWIN.
The Dancing Bears

W.S. Merwin
birth name: William Stanley Merwin
born: 9/30/1927

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Biography

American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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