Many Mountains Moving: A Tribute to W.S. Merwin; Volume IV, No. 2

by W.S. Merwin

Many Mountains Moving is a literary journal devoted to fostering an appreciation of diverse cultures through literature. This issue, "A Tribute to W.S. Merwin," is a special edition that is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1886976104
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Many Mountains Moving
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Merwin as poet

That Mr. Merwin may be the finest living American poet, with perhaps the most original and unique voice in American literature, immediately raises the expectations of any work devoted to him. I have been a reader of his since I was a student in San Antonio, Texas. I have been a comprehender of his poetry since I took seriously the poetry of the Latin American and Spanish surrealists. Merwin is not for the faint-hearted. Even his early poems, those collected recently under the title of The First Four Books Of Poetry, though often smacking of poetic exercise, require acute attention to language and definition. This particular collection titled Many Mountains Moving brings all of Merwin's strengths into the light and demonstrates how miraculous the act of moving mountains his poetry achieves.