A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."

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

Translations of Asian poetry by one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

Collects all of Merwin's poetry from The Compass Flower, Feathers from the Hill, and Opening the Hand.

New genius work from W.S. Merwin, considered "one of America's greatest living poets." -Washington Post

From The New York Times bestelling author of the Dragonrealm

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

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

Out of print for two decades and reissued in this updated edition, Sun at Midnight is the first translation into English of the work of Muso Soseki, a Zen roshi of the fourteenth century and father of what we now think of as the Zen rock garden. These sublime translations reveal W.S. Merwin's own resources as a gardener; the heart of both his and Soseki's endeavors can be seen with clarity through these inspiring poems and letters. Intensely lyric and rich with the concrete details of sight, sound, and scent, deeply immersed in the great philosophical questions, the work is transformative and full-spectrum. From a telling smile and handshake in "the one wind" to "something beyond happiness / inside the gate / of this mountain," the infinity in a moment can be found everywhere. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world For a person of Zen no limits exist The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small Book jacket.

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