Reading W.S. Merwin in a new century : American and European perspectives / Cheri Colby Langdell, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langdell, Cheri Colby, editor.

Series:

American literature readings in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Merwin, W. S.

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 363 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin's work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Cheri Colby Langdell

pt. I Merwin and Other Poets

2. "High Company": W.S. Merwin, John Berryman and the Art of Poetry / Philip Coleman

3. The Value and Forms of Contact in the Work of William Carlos Williams and W.S. Merwin / Ian D. Copestake

4. The Lost Steps: W. S. Merwin and the Journey Backward / Jeffrey Gray

pt. II Nature, Zen and Ecopoetics

5. Bound to Reverence: Not Knowing, Emptiness, Time, and Nature in W.S. Merwin's Poetry / Cheri Colby Langdell

6. Merwin's Ecopoetic Conservancy / Thomas Festa

7. Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Others / Nancy D. Goldfarb

8. The Fox Sleeps in Plain Sight: Zen in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin / Tim Langdell

pt. III The Poet's Craft

9. "A Sense of Being Linked with People": Poetry, Listening, Intonation / Natalie Gerber

10. Lyric "Unpunctuation": W. S. Merwin's Early New Yorker Correspondence / Amanda Golden

11. W.S. Merwin's Homecoming in the Heart of Europe / Diederik Oostdijk

12. Resilience of the Oracular in W.S. Merwin's "Forgotten Language" / Alan Soldofsky

pt. IV The Sense of an Ending

13. W.S. Merwin's "Retirement": Late Style and Themes in the 1990s and After / Michael Thurston

14. Merwin's Epic of Dispossession / Thomas Festa

15. Memory, Belatedness, and Paradise in W.S. Merwin's Later Poetry / James McCorkle

16. "The Last Days of the World": Apocalyptic Visions in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and William Butler Yeats / Daniel Lambert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031131561

3031131568

OCLC:

1346316129