Why read The Ends of the Earth?

Book cover of The Ends of the Earth: Essays

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W. S. Merwin is widely acknowledged as one of the finest living poets in English. Less well known is the power and range of his work in prose. For his first new prose collection in more than ten years, The Ends of the Earth, Merwin has gathered eight essays that…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Ends of the Earth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Akiko Busch

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W. S. Merwin writes about place with both a sense of rich material texture and evanescence. Science and history may be referred to as well. Somehow these assorted sensibilities, or views, create a genuine and full sense of place that reflects what is both visible and invisible. For some reason I don’t quite understand, I would rather encounter a monk on a tractor in a Merwin essay than in a Merwin poem.

From Akiko's list on essays by poets.