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W. S. Merwin bibliography

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A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.[1]

Poetry

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Collections
  • 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
  • 1954: The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
  • 1956: Green with Beasts, New York: Knopf (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
  • 1960: The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
  • 1963: The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1966: Collected Poems, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1967: The Lice, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2017, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)
  • 1969: Animae, San Francisco: Kayak[2]
  • 1970: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum[2] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize[3]
  • 1970: Signs, illustrated by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press[2]
  • 1973: Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[2]
  • 1977: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1978: Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[2]
  • 1982: Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press[2]
  • 1983: Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1988: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf[2]
  • 1988: Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum[2]
  • 1993: The Second Four Books of Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
  • 1993: Travels: Poems, New York: Knopf[2] – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize[4]
  • 1996: The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf[2]
  • 1997: Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2]
  • 1998: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[5]
  • 1999: The River Sound: Poems, New York: Knopf[2]
  • 2001: The Pupil, New York: Knopf[2]
  • 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2] – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry[6]
  • 2005: Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2]
  • 2005: Selected Poems, Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
  • 2008: The Shadow of Sirius, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[7] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize;[3] 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
  • 2013: The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, New York: Library of America
  • 2014: The Moon Before Morning, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press;[8] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
  • 2016: Garden Time, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press;[9] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
  • 2017: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[10]
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Alba 2008 The New Yorker 84/35 (November 3, 2008)
The Blackboard 2014 The New Yorker 90/32 (October 20, 2014)
Another Year Comes 1960 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Asians Dying 1966 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Burning Mountain 1958
Forgetting clouds 2014 The New Yorker (April 21, 2014)[11]
The Herds 1966 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Lemuels Blessing 1962 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Old Room 1969 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Peril 1974 Merwin, W. S. (January 7, 1974). "Peril". The New Yorker. 49 (46): 36.
Peasant 1967 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Plea for a Captive 1960 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Portland (Going Out) 1957 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Resolution 1964 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Shadow Questions 2016 Garden Time (2016)
Telephone ringing in the labyrinth 2012 The New York Review of Books 59/9 (May 24, 2012)
The Way to the River 1962 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Widow 1966 The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)

Prose

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  • 1970: The Miner's Pale Children, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[2]
  • 1977: Houses and Travellers, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[2]
  • Regions of Memory
  • 1982: Unframed Originals: Recollections
  • 1992: The Lost Uplands: Stories of Southwest France, New York: Knopf
  • 2002: The Mays of Ventadorn, National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic[2]
  • 2004: The Ends of the Earth, essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard[2]
  • 2005: Summer Doorways: A Memoir
  • 2007: The Book of Fables, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press

Plays

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  • 1956: Darkling Child (with Dido Milroy), produced this year[2]
  • 1957: Favor Island, produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (broadcast in 1958 by Third Programme, British Broadcasting Corporation)[2]
  • 1961: The Gilded West, produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England[2]

Translations

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Editor

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  • 1961: West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society[2]
  • 1996: Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (compiler), Washington: Counterpoint[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Amazon.com Official Profile". Amazon. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation, Accessed October 23, 2010
  3. ^ a b "Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
  4. ^ a b c d News release, "Poet W.S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15, September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010
  5. ^ "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)"; Amazon.com; 2010
  6. ^ "National Book Awards – 2005". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
    (With acceptance speech by Merwin, essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.)
  7. ^ Farr, Sheila, "Poet ponders life's contrasts in 'The Shadow of Sirius'", book review, October 30, 2010, The Seattle Times, retrieved June 8, 2010
  8. ^ a b "W.S. Merwin". www.coppercanyonpress.org. Archived from the original on Mar 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "Copper Canyon Press: Garden Time, poetry by W.S. Merwin". January 21, 2018.
  10. ^ "Copper Canyon Press: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Poetry by W.S. Merwin". Coppercanyonpress.org. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Forgetting clouds". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 9. April 21, 2014. p. 56. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  12. ^ Complete Index Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine at Hudson Review Accessed October 23, 2010