The Carrier of Ladders

Name: The Carrier of Ladders
Author: W.S. Merwin

by W.S. Merwin

Poems balancing poetic craft with spiritual reaching and unknowing

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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

A Mask for JanusEarly formal poems on mythology and classical tradition
The Moving TargetElegiac poems exploring loss, transformation, and absence
The LiceSpare, austere poems on apocalypse, emptiness, and spiritual desolation
The Shadow of SiriusLate poems on age, mortality, and glimpses of transcendence