Collected Poems 1952-1993

Collected Poems 1952-1993
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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).

Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwinâ€™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 decadesâ€” from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poetsâ€™ Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureateâ€”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 â€œlate poems / that are made of words / that have come the whole way / they have been there.â€
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781598532081
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2013-05-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598532081

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781598532081
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2013-05-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598532081

Collected Poems 1952-1993

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