Until Everything Is Continuous Again
American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin
edited by Jonathan Weinert and Kevin Prufer
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W. S. Merwin is a defining writer for our age, a poet who, over the course of sixty years and more than forty books, has created a body of work of enormous range, ambition, and complexity. He has served as the United States Poet Laureate and is the recipient of almost every major American award for poetry, including the 2005 National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1971 and again in 2009.
Poetry by W. S. Merwin
The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press, 2008)
Present Company (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
The Pupil (Knopf, 2001)
The River Sound: Poems (Knopf, 1999)
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Knopf, 1998)
Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)
The Vixen: Poems (Knopf, 1996)
Travels: Poems (Knopf, 1993)
The Second Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)
The Rain in the Trees (Knopf, 1988)
The First Four Books of Poems (Atheneum, 1975; reprinted by Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (Atheneum, 1973)—available in The Second Four Books of Poems
The Carrier of Ladders (Atheneum, 1970)—available in The Second Four Books of Poems
The Lice (Atheneum, 1967)—available in The Second Four Books of Poems
The Moving Target (Atheneum, 1963)—available in The Second Four Books of Poems
The Drunk in the Furnace (Macmillan, 1960)—available in The First Four Books of Poems
Green with Beasts (Knopf, 1956)—available in The First Four Books of Poems
The Dancing Bears (Yale University Press, 1954)—available in The First Four Books of Poems
A Mask for Janus (Yale University Press, 1952)—available in The First Four Books of Poems
Prose by W. S. Merwin
The Book of Fables (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)
Summer Doorways (Shoemaker & Hoard: A Memoir, 2005)
The Ends of the Earth: Essays (Counterpoint, 2005)
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France (Counterpoint, 2004)
Unframed Originals: Recollections (Counterpoint, 2004)
W. S. Merwin Online
Read his biography at The American Academy of Poets, The Poetry Foundation or Wikipedia.
Read more or listen to the interview with Merwin from Bill Moyers Journal.
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