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Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master.”-“The New York Times” “Merwin writes that the act of translation is ‘plainly impossible and nevertheless indispensable.’ We can be grateful that he feels compelled to master the impossible. . And that gift alone is priceless.”-“The Wichita Eagle” “Selected Translations” is the lifework from one of America’s greatest poets and translators. Dedicated to the art of translation since his undergraduate years at Princeton, Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin achieved an unmatched oeuvre of translated poems from every corner of the earth, from dozens of languages. This massive achievement is an essential volume for every library, public and private. From “In Praise of Darkness”: Translated from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges “Old age (as others refer to it) can be the season of our good fortune. The animal has died, all but the dying. What remains is the man and his spirit. I live among vague luminous shapes that have not yet become darkness. ” W.S. Merwin was US Poet Laureate from 2010-2011. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, most recently for “The Shadow of Sirius” (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) , and the National Book Award for “Migration: New and Selected Poems” (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) . Author and translator of over fifty books, Merwin lives in Hawaii and France.
