Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives Langdell Cheri Colby
Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives Langdell Cheri Colby This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin.…
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Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives Langdell Cheri Colby
This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet.
It also highlights how Merwin's work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into