W. S. Merwin bibliography
A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose .[ 1]
Poetry
Collections
1952 : A Mask for Janus , New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press ; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize , 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems , 1975)[ 2]
1954 : The Dancing Bears , New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems , 1975)[ 2]
1956 : Green with Beasts , New York: Knopf (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems , 1975)[ 2]
1960 : The Drunk in the Furnace , New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems , 1975)[ 2]
1963 : The Moving Target , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1966 : Collected Poems , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1967 : The Lice , New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2017, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press )
1969 : Animae , San Francisco: Kayak[ 2]
1970 : The Carrier of Ladders , New York: Atheneum[ 2] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize[ 3]
1970 : Signs , illustrated by A. D. Moore ; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press[ 2]
1973 : Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1975 : The First Four Books of Poems , containing A Mask for Janus , The Dancing Bears , Green with Beasts , and The Drunk in the Furnace , New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press )[ 2]
1977 : The Compass Flower , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1978 : Feathers From the Hill , Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[ 2]
1982 : Finding the Islands , San Francisco: North Point Press[ 2]
1983 : Opening the Hand , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1988 : The Rain in the Trees , New York: Knopf[ 2]
1988 : Selected Poems , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1993 : The Second Four Books of Poems , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
1993 : Travels: Poems , New York: Knopf[ 2] – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize [ 4]
1996 : The Vixen: Poems , New York: Knopf[ 2]
1997 : Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[ 2]
1998 : The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative , a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[ 5]
1999 : The River Sound: Poems , New York: Knopf[ 2]
2001 : The Pupil , New York: Knopf[ 2]
2005 : Migration: New and Selected Poems , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[ 2] – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry [ 6]
2005 : Present Company , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[ 2]
2005 : Selected Poems , Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
2008 : The Shadow of Sirius , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press [ 7] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize;[ 3] 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
2013 : The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin , New York: Library of America
2014 : The Moon Before Morning , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press ;[ 8] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
2016 : Garden Time , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press ;[ 9] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
2017 : The Essential W.S. Merwin , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press [ 10]
List of poems
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Alba
2008
The New Yorker 84/35 (November 3, 2008)
The Blackboard
2014
The New Yorker 90/32 (October 20, 2014)
Another Year Comes
1960
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Asians Dying
1966
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Burning Mountain
1958
Forgetting clouds
2014
The New Yorker (April 21, 2014)[ 11]
The Herds
1966
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Lemuels Blessing
1962
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Old Room
1969
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Peril
1974
Merwin, W. S. (January 7, 1974). "Peril". The New Yorker . 49 (46): 36.
Peasant
1967
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Plea for a Captive
1960
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Portland (Going Out)
1957
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Resolution
1964
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Shadow Questions
2016
Garden Time (2016)
Telephone ringing in the labyrinth
2012
The New York Review of Books 59/9 (May 24, 2012)
The Way to the River
1962
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
The Widow
1966
The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)
Prose
1970 : The Miner's Pale Children , New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[ 2]
1977 : Houses and Travellers , New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[ 2]
Regions of Memory
1982 : Unframed Originals: Recollections
1992 : The Lost Uplands: Stories of Southwest France , New York: Knopf
2002 : The Mays of Ventadorn , National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic [ 2]
2004 : The Ends of the Earth , essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard[ 2]
2005 : Summer Doorways: A Memoir
2007 : The Book of Fables , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
Plays
1956 : Darkling Child (with Dido Milroy ), produced this year[ 2]
1957 : Favor Island , produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (broadcast in 1958 by Third Programme , British Broadcasting Corporation)[ 2]
1961 : The Gilded West , produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England[ 2]
Translations
1959 : The Poem of the Cid , London: Dent (American edition, 1962, New York: New American Library)[ 2]
1960 : The Satires of Persius , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press [ 2]
1961 : Some Spanish Ballads , London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads , 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)[ 2]
1962 : The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities , a Spanish novella; New York: Doubleday Anchor[ 2]
1963 : The Song of Roland [ 4]
1969 : Selected Translations, 1948–1968 , New York: Atheneum[ 2] – winner of the PEN Translation Prize [ 4]
1969 : Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair , poems by Pablo Neruda ; London: Jonathan Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia , New York: Penguin Books)[ 2]
1969 : Products of the Perfected Civilization, Selected Writings of Chamfort , also author of the introduction; New York: Macmillan
1969 : Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia , Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[ 2]
1969 : Transparence of the World , poems by Jean Follain , New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[ 2]
1971 : "Eight Quechua Poems", The Hudson Review [ 12]
1973 : Asian Figures , New York: Atheneum
1974 : Osip Mandelstam : Selected Poems (with Clarence Brown ), New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam , New York: New York Review of Books)[ 2]
1977 : Sanskrit Love Poetry (with J. Moussaieff Masson ), New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India , San Francisco: North Point Press)[ 2]
1977 : Vertical Poetry , poems by Roberto Juarroz ; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)[ 2]
1978 : Euripides ' Iphigeneia at Aulis (with George E. Dimock, Jr. ), New York: Oxford University Press[ 2]
1979 : Selected Translations, 1968–1978 , New York: Atheneum[ 2]
1981 : Robert the Devil , an anonymous French play; with an introduction by the translator; Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[ 2]
1985 : Four French Plays , including Robert the Devil ; The Rival of His Master and Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage ; and The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux ; New York: Atheneum
1985 : From the Spanish Morning , consisting of Spanash Ballads by Lope de Rueda and Eufemia: The Life of Lazarillo de Torres (originally translated in Tulane Drama Review , December 1958); New York: Atheneum
1989 : Sun at Midnight , poems by Musō Soseki (with Soiku Shigematsu )[ 4]
1996 : Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
1998 : East Window: The Asian Translations , translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
2000 : Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante ; New York: Knopf[ 2]
2002 : Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation , New York: Knopf;[ 2] 2003: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
2013 : Selected Translations , translated poems from 1948–2010, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
2013: Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Takako Lento)
2013: Sun At Midnight , poems by Muso Soseki , Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Soiku Shigematsu) (updated and reissued)[ 8]
2018: Purgatorio: A New Translation , from The Divine Comedy of Dante, Copper Canyon Press
Editor
1961 : West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry , London: Poetry Book Society[ 2]
1996 : Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (compiler), Washington: Counterpoint[ 2]
References
^ "Amazon.com Official Profile" . Amazon . Retrieved 7 October 2012 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation, Accessed October 23, 2010
^ a b "Poetry" . Past winners & finalists by category . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
^ a b c d News release, "Poet W.S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15 , September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010
^ "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)" ; Amazon.com ; 2010
^
"National Book Awards – 2005" . National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012-04-08. (With acceptance speech by Merwin, essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.)
^ Farr, Sheila, "Poet ponders life's contrasts in 'The Shadow of Sirius'" , book review, October 30, 2010, The Seattle Times , retrieved June 8, 2010
^ a b "W.S. Merwin" . www.coppercanyonpress.org . Archived from the original on Mar 30, 2019.
^ "Copper Canyon Press: Garden Time, poetry by W.S. Merwin" . January 21, 2018.
^ "Copper Canyon Press: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Poetry by W.S. Merwin" . Coppercanyonpress.org . Retrieved 21 January 2018 .
^ "Forgetting clouds" . The New Yorker . Vol. 90, no. 9. April 21, 2014. p. 56. Retrieved 2018-11-26 .
^ Complete Index Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine at Hudson Review Accessed October 23, 2010