Books written by William Stanley Merwin

  • The Real World of Manuel Córdova

    Based upon actual events in the life of Manuel Córdova-Rios (1887-1978) as told to F. Bruce Lamb and subsequently published under the title, Wizard of the Upper Amazon.

  • Apparitions: Poems
    Apparitions: Poems

    Apparitions: Poems

  • The First Four Books of Poems
    The First Four Books of Poems

    Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

  • The Book of Fables
    The Book of Fables

    Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.

  • The Shadow of Sirius
    The Shadow of Sirius

    'The Shadow of Sirius' contains a collection of poems from the pen of W.S. Merwin. The poems take for their cultural theme the nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence and memory.

  • The Essential W. S. Merwin
    The Essential W. S. Merwin

    This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.

  • Garden Time
    Garden Time

    Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.

  • Unchopping a Tree
    Unchopping a Tree

    An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree

  • Houses and Travellers
    Houses and Travellers

    Houses and Travellers

  • Opening the Hand: Poems
    Opening the Hand: Poems

    Poems deal with the author's family life and early years, the senses, other poets, nature and mortality

  • What Is a Garden?
    What Is a Garden?

    Images of the Merwin Conservancy palm garden in Hawaii and the writings they inspired

  • Unframed Originals
    Unframed Originals

    The American poet recalls the people and experiences of his childhood in western Pennsylvania and New Jersey

  • Summer Doorways: A Memoir
    Summer Doorways: A Memoir

    The author of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Carrier of Ladders traces a pivotal year in his life spent in post-World War II Europe, during which he struggled with poverty, utilized creative travel methods, and witnessed the passing ...

  • Finding the Islands

    Poems present the author's observations on the natural world, love, and his experiences and feelings

  • Unframed Originals: Recollections

    The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.

  • A Mask for Janus

    A Mask for Janus

  • Border Voices: The San Diego Celebration of Poetry & Music : an Anthology by Major Poets and San Diego Students

    Poems by famous poets and San Diego students.

  • The Architect's Brother

    "The nature of his images and the process of their construction are interdisciplinary, embodying aspects of theater, sculpture, and painting, photography and performance.

  • The Architect's Brother
    The Architect's Brother

    Robert ParkeHarrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use.

  • Cuatro salmos
    Cuatro salmos

    William Stanley Merwin has won the Pulitzer Prize for The Carrier of Ladders, and for The Shadow of Sirius.