W. S. Merwin
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 4 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 30,1927 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | New York |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Paula Schwartz |
| Job | Translator |
| Poet | |
| Playwright | |
| Essayist | |
| Movies/Shows | Even Though the Whole World Is Burning |
| Language Matters with Bob Holman | |
| The Buddha | |
| Died | Haiku |
| Haiku-Pauwela | |
| Hawaii | |
| United States | |
| Education | Wyoming Seminary |
| Kingston | |
| PA | |
| Princeton University | |
| Kingston, PA | |
| Periods | 1952–2019 |
| Date of died | March 15,2019 |
| Genres | Poetry |
| Prose | |
| Translation | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 438149 |
Garden Time
The Essential W. S. Merwin
Migration: New & Selected Poems
The rain in the trees
The Carrier of Ladders
A Mask for Janus
The second four books of poems
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
Present company
The moving target
Summer Doorways: A Memoir
The lost upland
The Vixen: Poems
The Mays of Ventadorn
The river sound
Writings to an unfinished accompaniment
The Book of Fables
The compass flower
Flower & hand
Opening the hand
Unframed Originals
Collected Poems 1996-2011
East Window: The Asian Translations
The miner's pale children
Selected Poems
What is a Garden?
The ends of the earth
Selected translations, 1968-1978
Unchopping a Tree
Finding the islands
Houses and travellers
Collected Poems 1952-1993
Travels: Poems
The Pupil: Poems
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Regions of memory
Collected Poems
From the Spanish Morning
The Real World of Manuel Cordova
W. S. Merwin Reading His Poetry
Broadside
Half Serious: An Anthology of Short, Short Poems
Shadowgraph One: Interviews, Essays, and Poetics
Border Voices, the San Diego Celebration of Poetry and Music: The Ninth Annual Anthology of Poetry by Major Poets and San Diego Students
Apparitions: Poems
The First Four Books of Poems
The Architect's Brother
The Shadow of Sirius
The lice
The Essential W.S. Merwin
The Moon Before Morning
The Essential W. S. Merwin
Migration: New & Selected Poems
The rain in the trees
The Carrier of Ladders
A Mask for Janus
The second four books of poems
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
Present company
The moving target
Summer Doorways: A Memoir
The lost upland
The Vixen: Poems
The Mays of Ventadorn
The river sound
Writings to an unfinished accompaniment
The Book of Fables
The compass flower
Flower & hand
Opening the hand
Unframed Originals
Collected Poems 1996-2011
East Window: The Asian Translations
The miner's pale children
Selected Poems
What is a Garden?
The ends of the earth
Selected translations, 1968-1978
Unchopping a Tree
Finding the islands
Houses and travellers
Collected Poems 1952-1993
Travels: Poems
The Pupil: Poems
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Regions of memory
Collected Poems
From the Spanish Morning
The Real World of Manuel Cordova
W. S. Merwin Reading His Poetry
Broadside
Half Serious: An Anthology of Short, Short Poems
Shadowgraph One: Interviews, Essays, and Poetics
Border Voices, the San Diego Celebration of Poetry and Music: The Ninth Annual Anthology of Poetry by Major Poets and San Diego Students
Apparitions: Poems
The First Four Books of Poems
The Architect's Brother
The Shadow of Sirius
The lice
The Essential W.S. Merwin
The Moon Before Morning
United States Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
National Book Award for Poetry
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Bollingen Prize
Wallace Stevens Award
PEN Translation Prize
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
National Book Award for Poetry
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Bollingen Prize
Wallace Stevens Award
PEN Translation Prize
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry
W. S. Merwin Life story
William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration.
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