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Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 2019)
Publisher Marketing: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. S. Merwin turns his mastery of language and powerful attention to the origins of twelfth-century Provençal troubadours. Merwin deftly blends personal anecdotes–his pilgrimage at the age of eighteen to visit Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, his purchase of an abandoned farmhouse in Quercy–with his exploration of Southern France’s rich history and linguistic heritage.
We sat in a tower of the old library building, a long room among the rafters, a kind of loft that had never been finished like the rooms on the floors below, so that our graceless attempts at giving voice to a few sounds and phrases of medieval French took place inside masonry that had been designed to resemble a fortified belfry or a keep with battlements.
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