Poetry. "Mark Irwin's poetry is astir with liquid light, light wind, leaves, blossoms, and the slight but weighty questions that anchor us in his trembling landscapes. 'Because every thought is either memory or desire, the world / pulls away on both sides' leaving space for our tentative living. This is a book one wants to taste again and again." John Ashbery"

American Urn: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Mark Irwin

Poetry

Ashland Poetry Press

13 CONTEMPORARY YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS : A Chapbook Anthology

Proem Press

The Official Comic Book Magazine Resident Evil #2 (Resident Evil, Issue 2)

Comics & Graphic Novels

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"Merwin is one of the great poets of our age"--Los Angeles Times Book Review. 
"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth, and his heartache at time's passing, Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of creations, an accomplished style"--Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books. 
W. S. Merwin is a defining writer for our age, a poet who, over the course of sixty years and more than forty books, has created a body of work of enormous range, ambition, and complexity. He has served as the United States Poet Laureate and is the recipient of almost every major American award for poetry, including the 2005 National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1971 and again in 2009. 
In this volume, for the first time, fifteen poets and critics gather to discuss the last quarter century of his work, beginning with The Rain in the Trees, a collection of poems that marks a turning point in Merwin's career. At times personal and at times scholarly, these essays place the poet's recent work in the context of a lifetime of writing, and help us to understand how this seminal literary figure fits into the ongoing conversation of American poetry.

Until Everything Is Continuous Again

Eric Pankey

Jonathan Weinert

H.L. Hix

Lisa Russ Spaar

Steven Cramer

sarah-kennedy

Mark Halliday

David Caplan

Debra Kang Dean

Forrest Gander

Jerry Harp

Michael Theune

Jeanie Thompson

Matthew Zapruder

History & Criticism

WordFarm

A book of inquiry, Mark Irwin's Shimmer queries how the worlds of poverty, terrorism, ecology, species extinction, mortality and race interface and affect one another through electronic reproduction and transmission. Not as spectacles but as events that often seem too familiar, many are featured on YouTube: a horse still alive, dragged to be slaughtered; a homeless mother with an infant; a terrorist disguising a bomb, a Vietnam veteran attempting to commit suicide, a mother, unable to speak, who communicates by drawing different colors. 
Shimmer explores those places where metropolis and the natural world collide, where virtual technology attempts to convey the spirit. The incursion of electronic communication throughout society as a form of human language, has radically distorted and impacted notions of form and space in contemporary poetry, just as it has impacted the idea of what it means to be human.

Shimmer

Anhinga Press

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