Books by W.S. Merwin
Books by W.S. Merwin
by J. Zimmerman.
Poetry.
Prose.
Translation.
Anthology.
Books of Poetry by W.S. Merwin
Books of Prose by W.S. Merwin
- The Mays of Ventadorn.
- The Lost Upland.
- Regions of Memory.
- Unframed Originals.
- Houses and Travelers.
- The Miner's Pale Children.
Books of Translation by W.S. Merwin
Anthology by W.S. Merwin
The Books of Poetry
Present Company (2005)
by W.S. Merwin.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press.
Migration (2005)
by W.S. Merwin.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press.
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The Pupil (2001)
by W.S. Merwin.
The dark cover picture is the pupil (contractible opening) of an eye.
Superimposed on the center of this is small circular photo supplied by the author
and
presumably of himself as a child.
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When one can hear Merwin read these poems, one has the double pleasure of hearing his voice and
of hearing the cadences that he imposes on his unpunctuated poems.
As with many of his books, I must restart several of the poems the first time I read them.
Nonetheless ... worth taking time with these poems that presage his leave-taking of the
world, first by forgetting and second by not being here.
Among my favorites are "Sonnet" (p.5):
Where it begins will remain a question
for the time being at least ...
...
come back I say to it over the waters
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and the magical
"Marfa Lights" (pp.11-13):
... there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for
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Other favorites are:
"Aliens" (p.25),
"Unspoken Greeting" (p.28),
"Unknown Bird" (pp.36-37),
"First of June" (p.50),
"The Fence" (p.73),
"Heights" (p.90),
"Aliens" (p.25),
"Aliens" (p.25),
"Aliens" (p.25),
"Aliens" (p.25),
Some of these poems were previously published in:
- The American Poetry Review
- The Atlantic
- The Boston Review
- The Hudson Review
- The Kenyon Review
- Literary Imagination
- Metre
- The New York Review of Books
- The New Yorker
- Painted Leaf Press
- The Paris Review
- The Partisan Review
- Poetry
- Shenandoah
- Slate
- Southern California Anthology
- Tabla
The River Sound (1999)
by W.S. Merwin.
The Folding Cliffs (1998)
by W.S. Merwin.
Travels
by W.S. Merwin.
The First Four Books (2000).
Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (1997).
The Vixen (1996).
The Second Four Books (1993).
[The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment.]
Travels (1993).
Selected Poems (1988).
The Rain in the Trees (1988).
The Opening Hand (1983).
Finding the Islands (1982).
The Compass Flower (1977).
Writing to an Unfinished Accompaniment (1973).
Carrier of Ladders (1970).
Won Pulitzer Prize.
The Lice (1967).
The Moving Target (1963).
The Drunk in the Furnace (1960).
Green with Beasts (1956).
The Dancing Bears (1954).
A Mask for Janus (1952).
The Books of Translation
Purgatorio
by Dante,
translated by W.S. Merwin.
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