William Stanley Merwin

Presents a collection of poems reflecting the author's life.

The Shadow of Sirius

Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

The First Four Books of Poems

Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language

Poems

The Rain in the Trees

Spain has produced two books that changed the course of world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes.

His Fortunes and Adversities

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii. W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, from preterition to presence to prophecy. Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium: East Window (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1 The First Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X Flower & Hand (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5

The Second Four Books of Poems

Sōiku Shigematsu

Musō Soseki

Poems by the fourteenth century Zen Master deal with nature, wandering, wealth and poverty, solitude, friendship, and mortality

Poems and Sermons

Sun at Midnight

A collection of poetry from the former Poet Laureate offers insight into his observations about human consciousness and spirituality.

Collected Poems 1996-2011

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

Selected Writings of Chamfort

Products of the Perfected Civilization

A collection from the Bolligen Prize-winning poet drawn from work spanning three decades, this work presents some of the best of a major American poet in one volume

Selected Poems

New genius work from W.S. Merwin, considered "one of America's greatest living poets." -Washington Post

Present Company

This definitive volume by one of America's greatest poets is essential for all poetry collections.

New & Selected Poems

Migration

A collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet traces the origins of the twelfth-century Provental troubadors, from the work of Bernart de Ventadorn, to the ruins of the chGteau of Ventador, to the careworn farmhouse belonging to the author himself.

The Mays of Ventadorn

The Lice

Presents a collection of the author's best poems along with new works.

Robert ParkeHarrison

Robert ParkeHarrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. He attempts to metaphorically and poetically link his laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience. The mythic world he creates mirrors our world, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The scenes display futile attempts to save or rejuvenate nature. His 'everyman' character patches holes in the sky, creates rain machines, chases storms to create electricity, communicates with the earth to learn its needs. Within these scenes, he creates less refined, less scientific, more ritualistic and poetic possibilities to work with nature rather than destroying it. The nature of his images and the process of their construction are interdisciplinary, embodying aspects of theater, sculpture, and painting, photography and performance. None of the images are real in the factual sense, but they are treated as precious talismans of a lost moment, a documented super-reality, whose message, like that of a myth, transcends the small realities of the day to day world.

The Architect's Brother

US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK. The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in his latest collection. 'I have only what I remember,' Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, well-cultivated loves, and 'our long evenings and astonishment'. In 'Photographer', Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a dumpcart by 'someone who understood'. In 'Empty Lot', Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How shall we mine our lives?

Brief essays offer a surreal view of memory, sight, dreams, and daily life

Houses and Travellers

Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force

William Stanley Merwin

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