Reading W.S. Merwin in a new century : American and European perspectives / Cheri Colby Langdell, editor.
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 per...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Reading W.S. Merwin in a new century : |b American and European perspectives / |c Cheri Colby Langdell, editor. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Some Background on Merwin -- Evangelist of Nature -- Merwin and Other Poets -- Nature, Zen, and Ecopoetics -- The Poet's Craft -- The Sense of an Ending -- Conclusion: The Survivor: "the future splits the present with the echo of my voice" -- Part I: Merwin and Other Poets -- Chapter 2: "High Company": W.S. Merwin, John Berryman and the Art of Poetry -- "Berryman" -- "Lament for the Makers" -- Conclusion -- Works Cited. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 3: The Value and Forms of Contact in the Work of William Carlos Williams and W.S. Merwin -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: The Lost Steps: W. S. Merwin and the Journey Backward -- Works Cited -- Part II: Nature, Zen and Ecopoetics -- Chapter 5: Bound to Reverence: Not Knowing, Emptiness, Time, and Nature in W.S. Merwin's Poetry -- Not Knowing and Emptiness -- Emptiness and the Sources of Poetry -- Connectedness and Not Knowing -- Loss and Dispossession -- The Dark Side of God, the Nameless One -- Writing to Stop the Coming Extinction -- Psalms of Nature in His Poetry. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Reign of No One, Dark Prophecy -- Speaking to Whom? -- Prayer -- Emptiness, Origins Obliterated -- Centeredness in Buddhism -- Time and Timelessness in Nature -- Awakening in/to Nature -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Merwin's Ecopoetic Conservancy -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Others -- Trees as Blessings: Wendell Berry -- W.S. Merwin's The Rain in the Trees -- Connection to the Land -- Connection to the Past -- Keeper of Values -- Source of Meaning -- Conclusion -- Works Cited. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 8: The Fox Sleeps in Plain Sight: Zen in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin -- Works Cited -- Part III: The Poet's Craft -- Chapter 9: "A Sense of Being Linked with People": Poetry, Listening, Intonation -- Introduction -- Stage 1 -- Stage 2 -- Stage 3 -- Stage 4 -- Stage 5 -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Lyric "Unpunctuation": W. S. Merwin's Early New Yorker Correspondence -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: W.S. Merwin's Homecoming in the Heart of Europe -- An "Un-American" Poem? -- Bringing Dead Languages Back to Life -- The Custodian of Ancient Traditions -- Conclusion -- Works Cited. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 12: Resilience of the Oracular in W.S. Merwin's "Forgotten Language" -- Aphorism and "Finality of Utterance" -- Translation and Anacoluthon -- The End of Punctuation and Beginning of Orality -- Delphic-Style Oracular Rhetoric -- Oracular Environmentalism -- Riddles, Answers, Altered Realities -- Poetics of Preservation and Astonishment -- Works Cited -- Part IV: The Sense of an Ending -- Chapter 13: W.S. Merwin's "Retirement": Late Style and Themes in the 1990s and After -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14: Merwin's Epic of Dispossession -- Works Cited. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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