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

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.

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

Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force

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

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer."

Poet W. S. Merwin interweaves his own reminiscences with, "a chronicle of the lordly 12th-century bards who once ruled a world where kings were poets and poets kings."

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

In luscious and purposeful language, W.S. Merwin s new poems examine our essential relationships with the natural world."