{"first_publish_date": "2005", "dewey_number": ["811/.54", "B"], "title": "Summer doorways", "covers": [871374], "subject_places": ["Europe"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3563.E75 Z474 2005"], "subject_people": ["W. S. Merwin (1927-)"], "key": "/works/OL1916044W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL229556A"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["American Poets", "Americans", "Biography", "Childhood and youth", "Description and travel", "Poets, American", "Travel", "Poets, biography", "Merwin, w. s. (william stanley), 1927-2019", "Americans, europe", "Europe, description and travel"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from Princeton, W.S. Merwin made his first trip abroad.\" \"Summer Doorways tells the story of the poet's youth a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952: Merwin describes life in a Europe that was already passing away at the close of World War II. He writes, \"I would have the luck to discover, to glimpse, to touch for a moment some ancient, measureless way of living, of being in the world, some fabric long taken for granted, never finished yet complete, at once fixed and evanescent as a work of art, an entire age just before it was gone like a summer.\" Writing both lyrical and longing, Summer Doorways is certain to be placed high on the list of this writer's most important works.\"--Jacket."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:33:58.482291"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-19T08:07:40.429421"}}