Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

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

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wutz, Michael
• Crimmel, Hal, 1966-

Description

xxxiv, 212 pages; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subjects

• Poets, American
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• 1900 - 1999
• Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Merwin, W. S (William Stanley), 1927-2019 > Interviews
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• Poetry > Authorship
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-3807

ISBN

• 9781628462227
• 1628462221
• 9781626746190 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014039427

OCLC

893899005

Author

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

Title

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

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Wutz, Michael, editor.

Crimmel, Hal, 1966- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927- Conversations with W. S. Merwin Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015] 9781626746190 (DLC) 2014042850

Research Call Number

JFE 15-3807