Includes The Moving Target, The Lice, The Carrier of Ladders, and Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment. Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 1992)
Publisher Marketing: W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, from preterition to presence to prophecy.