Poetry. Limited edition broadside of W.S. Merwin's poem "Waves in August." Merwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, has helped shape contemporary American poetry for over five decades. Printed in an edition of 200 copies for a benefit reading for Small Press Distribution in 1999. "Waves in August" first appeared in the 1999 Knopf publication The River Sound but can also be found in MIGRATION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS from Copper Canyon Press.

Author Hometown: HAIKU, HI USA



About the author: 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.