{"product_id":"ws-merwin-collected-poems-19962011-loa-241-library-of-america-w-s-merwin-edition","title":"W.S. Merwin: Collected Poems 1996-2011 (LOA #241) (Library of America W. S. Merwin Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is the second volume in a definitive  career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate  which is also available as a deluxe boxed set  The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (described below).  Oracular and elegant  W. S. Merwins poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature  the mysteries of memory and perception  the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureatehe has fashioned a poetics unmistakably his own  marked by a stripped-down  unpunctuated style that foregrounds his responsiveness  spiritual insights  and facility with unadorned  elemental language. Now  with this two-volume edition  Merwin becomes only the second living poet to have his work collected by The Library of America. Here are such landmark books as his debut volume A Mask for Janus (1952)  which shows the young poet engaged in a fruitful dialogue with Auden and Berryman; The Lice (1967)  with its impassioned political poems about the Vietnam War and ecological catastrophe; The Vixen (1996)  which offers vivid recollections of southwestern France; the epic verse novel The Folding Cliffs (2008)  set in nineteenth-century Hawaii; and The Shadow of Sirius (2008)  with its late poems \/ that are made of words \/ that have come the whole way \/ they have been there.  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing  and keeping permanently in print  Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date  authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length  feature cloth covers  sewn bindings  and ribbon markers  and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946614288437,"sku":"ByrdShop_159853209X","price":59.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781598532098.jpg?v=1769957393","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ws-merwin-collected-poems-19962011-loa-241-library-of-america-w-s-merwin-edition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}