Poetry. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award in Poetry. A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century--an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. MIGRATION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is that case--a distillation of the best poems from a profound body of work, and including a selection of new poems.
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.
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