“w s merwin”

A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text. It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthur's court.... More

In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the dev... More

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an... More

From a major American poet -- a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the w... More

The poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.... More

Half RoundelFor the spoilt season, The weed of Eden. Save us the green In the weed of time.Now is November;In night uneasyNothing I say. Save us from the water That washes us away.What do I ponder?All smiled disguise, Lights in cold places, Save us from air That wears us loosely.The leaf of summerTo... More

Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. "The poems in Migration speak a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection."-National Book Award judges' statement "The publication of W. S. Merwin's sele... More

"Merwin is one of the great poets of our age."-"Los Angeles Times Book Review""The intentions of Merwin's poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper."-"The Atlantic"The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in W.S. Merwin's new book of p... More

A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his dea... More

Acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin's translations are as breathtakingly elegant as a Japanese Zen rock garden. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has translated poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as diverse as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Persian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Japanese.Poetry. Asian Studies. This colle... More