Lament for the Makers
Subtitle: A Memorial Anthology
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781887178518
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry texts & anthologies; Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; General; Collections; 20th century; American Poetry; English Poetry
Description: With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet. Lament for the Makers connects the work of one of our most gifted contemporary poets with the modern masters who have defined the twentieth-century poetic tradition.