Titlebook: Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century; American and Europea Cheri Colby Langdell Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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The Lost Steps: W. S. Merwin and the Journey Backward most by the drive to get., as Joni Mitchell sang in 1970, to the garden—“before the garden is extinct,” as Merwinhimself wrote in “The Vixen” (.69). This drive is directed--as it was for the Romantics--toward the question of recovering a connection to primal, even pre-human realities. The present e

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Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Otherseby answers the call made by ecologist and philosopher David Abram to renew the spiritual connection between ourselves and the rest of the earth. Reading poems that explore this sacred relationship between ourselves and the earth calls us to recognize that “the myriad things around us have their own

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The Fox Sleeps in Plain Sight: Zen in the Poetry of W. S. Merwins Zen Buddhism and the fact he actively practiced it. Zen suffused almost all his poetry written in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, as he has famously stated, he rarely let that fact become obvious in what he wrote. Hiding it was deliberate and intentional. His poem “Fox Slee

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Lyric “Unpunctuation”: W. S. Merwin’s Early , Correspondenceing agreement” in the late 1950s, inviting him to submit all of his poems for consideration, his appearance in the magazine increased in frequency. Possessing a first-reading agreement gave poets like Merwin the ability to shape the contours of the lyric that the magazine published at midcentury. Me

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W.S. Merwin’s Homecoming in the Heart of Europeortugal and Spain before temporarily settling in London, Merwin’s early poetry is imbued with his European travels and the European traditions he encountered. This Europeanness only intensified when he bought a rundown farmhouse in the southwest of France in 1954. Composed while living “In the Heart

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W.S. Merwin’s “Retirement”: Late Style and Themes in the 1990s and Afteraint, and so on. In this chapter, I examine later work of W.S. Merwin, beginning with . (published in 1993, when Merwin was 65, the age often associated with retirement). In the volumes he produced in the 1990s and early 2000s, we do indeed find a late turn in Merwin’s work. Unsurprisingly, one them