Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment

"For years now, W.S. Merwin has been working more privately, profoundly and daringly than any other American poet of my generation. He has been developing a language and a poetic landscape which are both severe and sensuous, in which the silences--as in human intercourse--are as essential as the speech. ... They [his poems] reach backward and forward as he connects himself with the archaic, the totemic, the legendary, yet exists on the verge of our shattering future. ..."--Adrienne RichDonated by Prabu Vasan, 8/6/2011.