W.S. Merwin - United States Poet Laureate (2010-2011) - Bibliography

POETRY/PROSE

A Mask for Janus, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1952.

The Dancing Bears, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1954.

Green with Beasts, Knopf (New York, NY), 1956.

The Drunk in the Furnace, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1960.

(Editor) West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry,
Poetry Book Society (London, England), 1961.

The Moving Target, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1963.

Collected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1966.

The Lice, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969.

Animae, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1969.

The Miner’s Pale Children (prose), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1970, reprinted,
Holt (New York, NY), 1994.

The Carrier of Ladders, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1970.

(With A.D. Moore) Signs, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1970.

Asian Figures, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1973.

Writings to an Unifinished Accompaniment, Antheneum (New York, NY), 1973.

The First Four Books of Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1975.

The Compass Flower, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1977.

Houses and Travellers (prose), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1977, reprinted,
Holt (New York, NY), 1994.

Feathers from the Hill, Windhover (Iowa City, IA), 1978.

Finding the Islands, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1982.

Unframed Originals: Recollections (prose), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1982.

Opening the Hand, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1983.

The Rain in Trees: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1988.

Selected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1988.

The Lost Upland (prose), Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.

Travels: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1993.

The Vixen: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1996.

(Compiler) Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology,
Counterpoint (Washington, DC), 1996.

Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977-1983, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1996.

The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (prose), Knopf (New York, NY), 1998.

East Window: The Asian Poems, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1998.

The River Sound: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.

The Pupil, Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.

The Mays of Ventadorn (prose), National Geographic (Washington, DC), 2002.

The Ends of the Earth (essays), Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.

Migration: New and Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2005.

Present Company, Copper Canyon Press (Port Twonsend, WA), 2005.

Summer Doorways: A Memoir, 2005.

The Book of Fables, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2007.

The Shadow of Sirius, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2008.

TRANSLATIONS

The Poems of the Cid, Dent (London, England), 1959, New American Library (New York, NY), 1962.

(Contributor) The Classic Theatre, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1961.

The Satires of Persius, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1961.

Some Spanish Ballads, Abelard (London, England), 1961, published as Spanish Ballads,
Doubleday Anchor (New York, NY), 1961.

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities,
Doubleday Anchor (New York, NY), 1962.

(Contributor) Medieval Epics, Modern Library (New York, NY), 1963.

Nicanor Parra, Poems and Antipoems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1968.

Jean Follain, Transparence of the World, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969, reprinted,
Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2003.

W.S. Merwin: Selected Translations, 1948-1968, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969.

S. Chamfort, Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings of Chamfort, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969.

Porchia, Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Follett (Chicago, IL), 1969, reprinted, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2003.

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Poems and a Song of Despair, Cape (London, England), 1969, reprinted, illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems, Dell (New York, NY), 1970.

Osip Mandelstam, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1973, reprinted as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York Review of Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Sanskrit Love Poetry, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1977, published as Peacock’s Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1981.

Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poems, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1977.

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulius, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1978.

Selected Translations, 1968-78, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979.

Robert the Devil, Windhover (Iowa City, IA), 1981.

Four French Plays, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.

From the Spanish Morning, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.

Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.

PLAYS

(With Dido Milroy) Darkling Child, produced, 1956.

Favor Island, produced at Poets’ Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1957, and on British Broadcasting Corporation Third Programme, 1958.

The Gilded West, produced at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England, 1961.


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