Migration: New and Selected Poems

National Book Award in Poetry, Ambassador Book Award

W. S. Merwin

A powerful case can be made for declaring United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century—an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Migration: New and Selected Poems is that case—a distillation of the best poems from a profound body of work, and including a selection of new poems.

As an undergraduate at Princeton, W.S. Merwin was advised by John Berryman to "get down on your knees and pray to the muse every day." Over the last fifty years, Merwin's poetry moved beyond the traditional verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engaged a vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of W.S. Merwin's work: "I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn't take so much from it into my own life."

In short, Migration: New and Selected Poems is the definitive Merwin volume.

Binding: cloth

ISBN: 1-55659-218-3

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