"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

Literature & Fiction

Eric Pankey

Mark Irwin

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

It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imaginedwith such a wise and graceful mixture of humor, loss, intelligence, wit, self-deprecation, and hope. American Linden is such a first collection. The poems in this book are valuable, even necessary. They are, in the most important sense, love poems: to people, to ideas, to feelings, and to the mind itself, which by means of language move with honesty, wit, and distinction among the fleeting things of this world.

American Linden

Poetry

Tupelo Press

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