W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the
last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated
the vision of poetry for our time. While he was long viewed in the
States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his
poetry was unavailable in Britain for over 35 years until Bloodaxe
published this edition of his Selected Poems in 2007. This new
selection covers over five decades of his poetry, from The Dancing
Bears (1954) to Present Company (2005). Most of the book is drawn
from his major American retrospective, Migration, winner of the
2005 National Book Award for Poetry. It was followed in 2009 by The
Shadow of Sirius, which won him a second Pulitzer Prize, and then
by The Moon Before Morning (2014) and Garden Time (2016). Merwin's
poetry has moved beyond the traditional verse of his early years to
revolutionary open forms that engage a vast array of influences and
possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of his work: 'I would be
shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn't take so much from
it into my own life.' His recent poetry is perhaps his most
personal, arising from his deeply held beliefs. Merwin is not only
profoundly anti-imperialist, pacifist and environmentalist, but
also possessed by an intimate feeling for landscape and language
and the ways in which land and language interflow. His latest poems
are densely imagistic, dream-like, and full of praise for the
natural world.
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