id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1557 W. S. Merwin - Wikipedia .html text/html 4239 499 75 William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation.[1] During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. Merwin's volume Migration: New and Selected Poems won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.[14] 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[25] 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[25] 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[25] – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry[14] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1557.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1557.txt