The Present
by W. S. Merwin • from Garden Time • Copper Canyon Press
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W. S. MerwinW. S. Merwin is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for his collections The Carrier of Ladders and The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon).
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Garden TimeMerwin's luminous, ethereal voice gently interrogates mortality, and especially now, late in life, he sings lovingly to a timeless world...
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"Don Share's The Poems of Basil Bunting is... long-awaited on two separate counts: not only because a scholarly, critical, variorum edition of this major modernist poet has long been required, but also because this edition has for many years been imminent, a ghostly vessel forever breasting the horizon. Now it has come alongside... Well done, Faber. Well done, Don Share."
—Chris Miller MORE
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Just Received: New Collections By
- W. S. Merwin
- Tim Hunt
- James A. LaFond-Lewis
- Roger Sedarat
- Carol Hebald
- Douglas Cole
- Carol Jennings
- Charles W. Brice
- George H.S. Singer
- Tanque R. Jones
- David Hathwell
- Kate Falvey
- Judson Mitcham, Michael David Murphy, Karen L. Paty
- Brian Swann
- Peter Gizzi
- Lisa Stice
- Mary Oliver
- Sarah Plimpton
- Susan Terris
- C. K. Williams
- Yehoshua November
- John Matthias
- Mark Wagenaar
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Dwight Garner on Odes by Sharon Olds.
David Budbill, 76
Carol Rumens introduces Leonardo Sciascia's "Hic et Nunc," translated by Angela Leighton.
Ted Kooser presents Barbara Crooker's "Grief."
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens, by Paul Mariani, reviewed by Michael Hofmann.
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore, reviewed by Glenn C. Altschuler.
Craig Morgan Teicher reviews books by Ben Lerner and Marie Ponsot:
"No 'peasant poet' but a Monaghan modernist:"
Jaki McCarrick on Patrick Kavanagh.
John Palattella reviews Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry.
2016 MacArthur fellows named.
Nicholas Lezard on Don Paterson's 40 Sonnets.
Forward Poetry Prize winners announced.
Hilary Davies introduces
R. S. Thomas's "Somersby Brook."
Cave Canem to receive honorary National Book Award.
Jeff Gordiner reviews new books by W. S. Merwin and Adam Fitzgerald.
Rebecca Foust introduces "Word Pond" by Susan Kolodny.
Rashod Ollison chats with Tim Seibles, Virginia's new poet laureate. MORE
