@article{1452232, author = {Langdell, Cheri Colby,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1452232}, title = {Reading W.S. Merwin in a new century : American and European perspectives /}, abstract = {This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin's work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13157-8}, recid = {1452232}, pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)}, }