William Stanley Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose. William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation.During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009; the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005,and the Tanning Prize—one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets—as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate.
Series
Books
American Gothic Tales
1996
Contemporary American Poetry
1962
The Lost Upland
Stories of Southwestern France
1992
The Vixen
1996
The Compass Flower
1977
Products of the Perfected Civilization
Selected Writings
1984
The Shadow of Sirius
2008
The Moon Before Morning
2014
The Book of Fables
2007
Selected Translations
1948-1968
1979
Spanish Ballads
1961
Travels
1993
Summer Doorways
A Memoir
2005
The Mays of Ventadorn
2002
Unframed Originals
Recollections
1982
Selected Translations
2013
Asian figures
1973
The River Sound
1999
The Miner's Pale Children
1970
Migration
New and Selected Poems
2005
Collected Poems 1952-1993
2013
The Second Four Books of Poems
The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
1992
East Window
Poems from Asia
1998
Houses and Travellers
1977
Garden Time
2016
A Mask for Janus
1952
The Ends of the Earth
Essays
2004
The Essential W.S. Merwin
2017
Selected Poems
1988
The Lice
1967
Good Poems for Hard Times
2005
The Folding Cliffs
A Narrative
1998
The Moving Target
1963
The Rain in the Trees
1987
The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin
2013
Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
1973
Flower & Hand
Poems, 1977-1983
1996
The First Four Books of Poems
1975
The Carrier of Ladders
1971
The Pupil
Poems
2001
Opening the Hand
1983
Finding the Islands
1982
Unchopping a Tree
2014
Present Company
2005
