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Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin’s early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), 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 the 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, Conversations with W. S. Merwin 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.

Langue

en

Version

Couverture rigide

Date de sortie initiale

30 mai 2015

Nombre de pages

212

Illustrations

Non

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Auteur principal

W S Merwin

Rédacteur en chef

Michael Wutz

Deuxième rédacteur

Hal Crimmel

Editeur principal

University Press Of Mississippi

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25 mm

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25 mm

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165 mm

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165 mm

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Longueur d’emballage

241 mm

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241 mm

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499 g

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Non

EAN

EAN

9781628462227

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