MIGRATION: New and Selected Poems
W. S. Merwin, . . Copper Canyon, $40 (534pp) ISBN 978-1-55659-218-8
Mystical formalist, elegant romantic, Vietnam-era protester, translator, maker of sweet memoirs and uneasy dreamscapes, and ecological activist, Merwin has been so prominent for so long that it's hard to believe this rich selection represents the work of just one man. The earliest Merwin—a melancholy 1950s craftsman—gets the first 70 pages, including the bejeweled verse fairy tale "East of the Sun and West of the Sun." The haunting free verse of the next two decades includes the sad, urgent protest poems of
Reviewed on: 04/04/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 570 pages - 978-1-55659-261-4