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Belongs to Publisher SeriesLibrary of America (240-241) ContainsThe First Four Books of Poems by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accomp by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Rain in the Trees by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Travels by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Vixen by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The River Sound: Poems by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Pupil: Poems by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Present Company by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (indirect) A Mask for Janus by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Dancing Bears by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Green with Beasts by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Drunk in the Furnace by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Moving Target by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Lice by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Carrier of Ladders: Poems by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment by W. S. Merwin (indirect) The Compass Flower: Poems by W. S. Merwin (indirect) Opening the Hand by W. S. Merwin (indirect)
Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has fashioned a poetics unmistakably his own, marked by a stripped-down, unpunctuated style that foregrounds his responsiveness, spiritual insights, and facility with unadorned, elemental language. Now, with this two-volume edition, Merwin becomes only the second living poet to have his work collected by The Library of America. Here are such landmark books as his debut volume A Mask for Janus (1952), which shows the young poet engaged in a fruitful dialogue with Auden and Berryman; The Lice (1967), with its impassioned political poems about the Vietnam War and ecological catastrophe; The Vixen (1996), which offers vivid recollections of southwestern France; the epic verse novel The Folding Cliffs (2008), set in nineteenth-century Hawaii; and The Shadow of Sirius (2008), with its late poems / that are made of words / that have come the whole way / they have been there. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |