Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York
Times.
"The poems in Migration speak a life-long belief in the power of
words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with
compassionate interconnection."-National Book Award judges'
statement
"The publication of W. S. Merwin's selected and new poems is one
of those landmark events in the literary world."-Los Angeles
Times
W. S. Merwin is the most influential American poet of the last
half-century-an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the
vision of poetry for our time. Migration: New and Selected Poems is
that case. This 540-page distillation-selected by Merwin from
fifteen diverse volumes-is a gathering of the best poems from a
profound body of work, accented by a selection of distinctive new
poems.
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Merwin was advised
by John Berryman to "get down on your knees and pray to the muse
every day." Migration represents the bounty of those prayers. Over
the last fifty years, Merwin's muse has led him beyond the formal
verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engage a
vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote
of Merwin's work: "I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry,
if I didn't take so much from it into my own life."
W. S. Merwin is the author of over fifty books of poetry,
prose, and translation. He lives in Hawaii, where he raises
endangered palm trees.
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