Bøger af Cheri Colby Langdell

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin¿s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin¿s work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.

In doing so, it clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality. The volume covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work.

This book explains in detail what it is like to be losing sight, legally blind, or fully blind, and also documents why today's exciting technological advances and medical solutions are lifting limitations for the visually impaired.