Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
The First Four Books of Poems: Including a Mask for Janus, the Dancing Bear, Green with Beasts, the Drunk in...
Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a ...
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this
Paperback of WS Merwin's most recent volume, a book infused with "buoyancy and light." (Booklist)
Here is the first volume in a definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, which is also available as a deluxe boxed set, The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (described below).
Here is the second volume in a definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, which is also available as a deluxe boxed set, The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (described below).
Merwin has created a special voice, unique in all of American poetry. It comes through in this selection Merwin has made from 10 of his previous books, beginning with "A...
Merwin is a major figure in our poetry, one of the few. His first book of verse in five years is an event. It is a very full selection with...