A Mask for Janus

Name: A Mask for Janus
Author: W.S. Merwin

by W.S. Merwin

Early formal poems on mythology and classical tradition

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W.S. Merwin

American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize twice and served as Poet Laureate. His early formal work gave way to a punctuation-free style in The Lice, responding to the Vietnam War.

More by W.S. Merwin

The Moving TargetElegiac poems exploring loss, transformation, and absence
The LiceSpare, austere poems on apocalypse, emptiness, and spiritual desolation
The Carrier of LaddersPoems balancing poetic craft with spiritual reaching and unknowing
The Shadow of SiriusLate poems on age, mortality, and glimpses of transcendence