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Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case. As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin was advised by John Berryman to get down on your knees and pray to the muse every day. Over the last 50 years, Merwins muse led him beyond the traditional verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engaged a vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of W.S. Merwins work, I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didnt take so much from it into my own life. The definitive volume from one of Americas greatest living poets. The Washington Post Book World "The poems in Migration speak from a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection."Citation from the National Book Award judges" The publication of W. S. Merwins selected and new poems is one of those landmark events in the literary world... Merwin is one of the great poets of our age." Los Angeles Times Book Review "[I]t's h

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Author

W.S. Merwin

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556592188

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.35 / 5 (495 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13