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The Lice

W. S. Merwin

This fiftieth anniversary edition revisits a groundbreaking moment in American poetry. The Lice responded, in part, to the atrocities of the Vietnam War and the national unrest of the Civil Rights Movement. Found within these haunting, urgent poems is a citizen artist ensnared in a grand-scale moral crisis. At this key moment in the twentieth century, early in W.S. Merwin's career, he captured a "peculiar, spiritual agony" (Yale Review) that is both of the time and utterly timeless.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
  • Publish Date: May 30th, 2017
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9781556594984
  • Categories: American - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, LossSubjects & Themes - War

About the Author

W. S. Merwin: W.S. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon) and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon).