The Essential W.S. Merwin - Softcover

Merwin, W S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556595131 ISBN 13: 9781556595134

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Essential W.S. Merwin traces a poetic legacy that changed the landscape of American letters: seven decades of audacity, rigor, and candor distilled into one definitive volume curated to represent the very best works from a vast oeuvre, from his 1952 debut, A Mask for Janus, to 2016's Garden Time. The Essential W.S Merwin includes favorite poems from two Pulitzer Prize-winning volumes; a selection of iconic translations; and lesser-known prose narratives. As the formalism of Merwin's early work loosened into the open, unpunctuated style he developed during the Civil Rights Movement--when urgent times demanded innovative modes of expression--readers can trace the evolution of one voice's commitment to moral, spiritual, and aesthetic inquiry. Across the decades, beyond headlines, policies, and trends, W.S. Merwin's poems point to the lessons that hide in the shadows of sentience.

About this title

About the Author

W. S. Merwin: W.S. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon) and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon).

Edition details

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556595131
• ISBN 13: 9781556595134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Wiegers Michael