@article{684879,
      author = {Merwin, W. S. and McClatchy, J. D.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/684879},
      title = {Collected poems 1996-2011 /},
      abstract = {Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's 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  Laureate-he 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.},
      recid = {684879},
      pages = {xvii, 679 pages ;},
}