Description
Published at the height of the Vietnam War, this landmark collection confronts a world fractured by political violence, environmental ruin, and spiritual disquiet. Drawing on mythology, history, and stark physical imagery, the poems portray a speaker suspended between witness and participant, absorbing the anguish of a society in moral crisis. Haunting, urgent, and formally inventive, the collection explores power, mortality, complicity, and humanity’s precarious relationship with the natural world. Its visionary intensity and prophetic resonance have made it one of W. S. Merwin’s most influential works and a defining achievement in modern American poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Macmillan Pub Co
Published Jan 1, 1967
ISBN: 9780689101908
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Details
First Published
1967
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Lice by W. S. Merwin.