num_pages: 67
description: 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.”
language: English
title: A Mask for Janus
titlecomplete: A Mask for Janus
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 53
series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
awards: awardedAt: -536428800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
publisher: Ams Pr Inc