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    W. S. Merwin

    Offers a biographical profile of the poet and provides analyses and critical views of his work, including The Drunk in the Furnace, For the Anniversary of My Death, and The…

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    Conversations with W. S. Merwin

    Offers the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as…

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    Conversations with W. S. Merwin

    Interviews with the former United States Poet Laureate

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    A Study Guide for W. S. Merwin’s Leviathan

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    A Study Guide for W. S. Merwin’s Leviathan, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…

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    Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin’s Poetry

    Feng Dong

    In the first monograph on W.S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet’s entire…

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    The Poem Forest: Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch

    Carrie Fountain

    Vibrant art and a poetic narration tell the tale of a US Poet Laureate who spent forty years planting the world’s most comprehensive palm tree forest-and then gave it all…

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    Unchopping a Tree

    W. S. Merwin

    An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree

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    A Study Guide for W. S. Merwin’s The Horizons of Rooms

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    A Study Guide for W. S. Merwin’s The Horizons of Rooms, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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    Unframed Originals: Recollections

    W. S. Merwin

    Originally published: 1st Owl book ed. New York: H. Holt, 1994.

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    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

    Pablo Neruda

    The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. His third book, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada…

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    The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative

    W. S. Merwin

    The poet offers a history in verse of nineteenth-century Hawaii, following the struggles of one small family, possible victims of leprosy, to remain independent.

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    River Sound

    W. S. Merwin

    A poet known for his lyrics adds three long narrative poems to his collection– Lament for the Makers, a tribute to fellow poets; Testimony, an autobiographical work; and Suite in…

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    The Pupil: Poems

    W. S. Merwin

    Hailed by Peter Davison in the Boston Sunday Globe as a poet who engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can…

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    Migration: New & Selected Poems

    W S Merwin

    Winner of the National Book Award, Migration is the definitive Merwin volume. Now in paperback.

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    The Shadow of Sirius

    W S Merwin

    Merwin is American poetry’s eminence gris–winner of every major literary prize this country offers.

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    The Shadow of Sirius

    W S Merwin

    Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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    Garden Time

    W S Merwin

    Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.

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    The Ends of the Earth: Essays

    W. S. Merwin

    Merwin has gathered eight essays–including a memoir of George Kirstein, publisher of The Nation, and one of Sydney Parkinson, explorer, naturalist and artist on Captain James Cook’s Endeavour –that show…

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    The Moon Before Morning

    W S Merwin

    In luscious and purposeful language, W.S. Merwin’s new poems examine our essential relationships with the natural world.

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    Lament for the Makers

    W. S. Merwin

    With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of…

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    Travels

    W. S. Merwin

    Poems deal with poets, naturalists, expatriates, the past, nature, survival, hope, and the seasons.

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    The Shadow of Sirius

    W. S. Merwin

    W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. At 82, Merwin produced ‘his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright’…

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    Song of Roland

    W. S. Merwin,W. S. Merwin

    A translation of the medieval epic poem about Roland’s adventures and death in Charlemagne’s war against the pagans.

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    A translation of the classic Arthurian tale seeks to convey the pace and power of the original fourteenth-century masterpiece and follows young Sir Gawain as he triumphantly rises to the…

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    The Vixen

    W. S. Merwin

    A collection of poetry offering a portrait of the people and landscape of a little-known region of southwestern France.

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    Summer Doorways: A Memoir

    W. S. Merwin

    In 1948, 21, already married and graduated from Princeton, W.S. Merwin made his first trip abroad. Through his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the…

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    Garden Time

    W S Merwin

    W.S. Merwin’s final book, brimming with longing, loss, and unanswerable questions.

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    The Rain in the Trees

    W. S. Merwin

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    Spanish Ballads

    W S Merwin

    Reissued classic translated by W.S. Merwin that includes examples of every type of Spanish ballad.

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    The Mays of Ventadorn

    W S Merwin

    The Mays Of Ventadorn is a love song written to the winding path of history and the beauty of language.

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    Selected Poems

    W. S. Merwin

    W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his…

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    A Mask for Janus

    W. S. Merwin

    A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

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    Garden Time

    W. S. Merwin

    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. This late collection…

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    The Second Four Books of Poems

    W S Merwin

    W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has…

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    Walden and Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau

    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

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    The Essential W.S. Merwin

    W S Merwin

    This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin’s vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.

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    Unchopping a Tree

    W S Merwin

    An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin’s wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree

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    Purgatorio

    Dante Alighieri

    In what may be his most ambitious project to date, Merwin has translated, in verse, the central section of Dante’s Divine ComedyQPurgatorio, a journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where…

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    What Is a Garden?

    W. S. Merwin

    Poet and environmentalist W.S. Merwin moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last thirty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm. What Is…

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    The Lice

    W S Merwin

    Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force

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    Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation

    MR Dante Alighieri

    Asked why he translated this book, instead of the Inferno or Paradiso, Merwin responded, The Purgatorio is more like life.

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    Sun at Midnight: Poems and Letters

    Muso Soseki

    Now back in print: W.S. Merwin’s translations of Muso Soseki, the thirteenth-century master of Zen rock gardening

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    In Parenthesis

    David Jones

    First published in 1937.

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    A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen

    Matsuo Basho,Robert Aitken,W. S. Merwin

    The author of Taking the Path of Zen ponders Zen, the human mind, and the haiku of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) the greatest Japanese haiku poet.

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    Iphigeneia at Aulis

    Euripides

    Merwin and Dimock have provided a translation for this tragedy, with an introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms.

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    100 Love Sonnets and Twenty Love Poems

    Pablo Neruda

    Neruda’s works now provided in one volume.

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    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Pablo Neruda

    A beautifully packaged collection from the greatest poet of the 20th century–in any language (Gabriel Garc'a Mrquez). 12 illustrations.

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    Last of the Curlews

    Fred Bodsworth

    A solitary Eskimo curlew sets out on a last perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species.

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