The Lice

Name: The Lice
Author: W.S. Merwin

by W.S. Merwin

Spare, austere poems on apocalypse, emptiness, and spiritual desolation

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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.

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