Poetry. Following THE SECOND FOUR BOOKS, this collection returns to print a large body of work by one of the premier poets of this century. W.S. Merwin was the first recipient of the Tanning Prize. "The terms of the Tanning Prize stipulate that it be given to 'a master'...here before us, and for many years to come, we have in William Merwin an embodied emblem of the best we can hope for, both as artist and citizen of the world"--James Merrill.

Author City: HAIKU, HI USA

During a sixty-year writing career with more than thirty books, W.S. Merwin has received nearly every major literary award, including the National Book Award in 2005 for MIGRATION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; in 2009 for THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS and in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders. In 2006 he won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for PRESENT COMPANY. Merwin lives in Hawaii where he raises endangered palm trees. He was appointed the Library of Congress's seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2010-2011.