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010 $a 2014042850
020 $a9781626746190 (ebook)
020 $z9781628462227 (hardback)
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084 $aBIO007000$aLIT014000$aLIT004020$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMerwin, W. S.$q(William Stanley),$d1927-
245 10 $aConversations with W. S. Merwin /$cedited by Michael Wutz and Hal Crimmel.
263 $a1506
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2015]
300 $a1 online resource.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aLiterary conversations series
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences, his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, his extraordinary work as a translator, as well as his decades-long interest in environmental conservation. Anticipating the current sustainability movement and the debates surrounding major and minor literatures, Merwin was, and still is, a visionary. At age eighty-eight, he is among the most distinguished poets, translators, and thinkers in the United States. A major link between the period of literary modernism and its contemporary extensions, Merwin has been a force in American letters for many decades, and his translations from Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and other languages, have earned him unanimous praise and admiration. Merwin also wrote at the forefront of literature's environmental advocacy and early on articulated concerns about ecology and sustainability. Now for the first time, this book offers insight into the various dimensions of Merwin's thought by treating his interviews as a self-standing category in his oeuvre. More than casual narratives that interpret the occasional poem or relay an occasional experience, they afford literary and cultural historians a view into the larger through-lines of Merwin's thinking"--$cProvided by publisher.
588 $aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
600 10 $aMerwin, W. S.$q(William Stanley),$d1927-$vInterviews.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vInterviews.
650 0 $aPoetry$xAuthorship.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aWutz, Michael,$eeditor.
700 1 $aCrimmel, Hal,$d1966-$eeditor.
776 08 $iPrint version:$aMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-$tConversations with W. S. Merwin$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]$z9781628462227$w(DLC) 2014039427