Unframed Originals: Recollections

In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.

"This book is superbly written, offering deep glimpses into the complexities and mysteries of family bonds, with just that distancing from people and events necessary for artistic control."--Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

Author: W. S. Merwin

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

Publication Date: Nov 30, 2004

Number of Pages: 252 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1593760345

ISBN-13: 9781593760342