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Author Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 author.

Title Conversations with W. S. Merwin / edited by Michael Wutz and Hal Crimmel.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages)
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Series Literary conversations series
Literary conversations series.
Note Includes index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 -- Interviews.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Poetry -- Authorship.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wutz, Michael, editor.
Crimmel, Hal, 1966- editor.
ISBN 9781628462227 (hardback)
9781626746237 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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