Conversations with W. S. Merwin / edited by Michael Wutz and Hal Crimmel.
2015
PS3563.E75 Z46 2015eb
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Title
Conversations with W. S. Merwin / edited by Michael Wutz and Hal Crimmel.
ISBN
9781628462227
9781626746237 (electronic book)
9781626746237 (electronic book)
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (247 pages)
Call Number
PS3563.E75 Z46 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.54 B
Summary
"Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences, his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, his extraordinary work as a translator, as well as his decades-long interest in environmental conservation. Anticipating the current sustainability movement and the debates surrounding major and minor literatures, Merwin was, and still is, a visionary. At age eighty-eight, he is among the most distinguished poets, translators, and thinkers in the United States. A major link between the period of literary modernism and its contemporary extensions, Merwin has been a force in American letters for many decades, and his translations from Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and other languages, have earned him unanimous praise and admiration. Merwin also wrote at the forefront of literature's environmental advocacy and early on articulated concerns about ecology and sustainability. Now for the first time, this book offers insight into the various dimensions of Merwin's thought by treating his interviews as a self-standing category in his oeuvre. More than casual narratives that interpret the occasional poem or relay an occasional experience, they afford literary and cultural historians a view into the larger through-lines of Merwin's thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.
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Wutz, Michael, editor.
Crimmel, Hal, 1966- editor.
Crimmel, Hal, 1966- editor.
Series
Literary conversations series.
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