Description
This early collection marks a pivotal stage in W. S. Merwin’s development as a poet, as he moves beyond formal inheritance toward a more individual voice and increasingly irregular forms. Its poems draw on family memory, seafaring, country life, and the tensions of childhood and aging, rendering ordinary experience with a flinty, vivid intensity. Beneath the book’s stark landscapes and unsettling portraits runs a deep concern with isolation, memory, guilt, and the difficult bonds between generations. The Drunk in the Furnace offers an illuminating glimpse of the linguistic experimentation and emotional searching that would shape Merwin’s distinguished career.
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First Published
1960
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Drunk in the Furnace by W. S. Merwin.