Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives 1st ed. 2022 Edition Cheri Colby Langdell

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031131568
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031131561
• Author(s): Cheri Colby Langdell

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. 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. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. 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. 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. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Merwin and Other Poets
2. “High Company”: W.S. Merwin, John Berryman and the Art of Poetry
3. The Value and Forms of Contact in the Work of William Carlos Williams and W.S. Merwin
4. The Lost Steps: W. S. Merwin and the Journey Backward
Part II. Nature, Zen and Ecopoetics
5. Bound to Reverence: Not Knowing, Emptiness, Time, and Nature in W.S. Merwin’s Poetry
6. Merwin’s Ecopoetic Conservancy
7. Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Others
8. The Fox Sleeps in Plain Sight: Zen in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin
Part III. The Poet’s Craft
9. “A Sense of Being Linked with People”: Poetry, Listening, Intonation
10. Lyric “Unpunctuation”: W. S. Merwin’s Early New Yorker Correspondence
11. W.S. Merwin’s Homecoming in the Heart of Europe
12. Resilience of the Oracular in W.S. Merwin’s “Forgotten Language”
Part IV. The Sense of an Ending
13. W.S. Merwin’s “Retirement”: Late Style and Themes in the 1990s and After
14. Merwin’s Epic of Dispossession
15. Memory, Belatedness, and Paradise in W.S. Merwin’s Later Poetry
16. “The Last Days of the World”: Apocalyptic Visions in the Poetry o

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