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W.S. Merwin • 388 Items / 33 Books, 68 Articles, 17 Reviews, 269 Poems, 1 Film
The Carrier of Ladders (1970)
by W.S. Merwin
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Published Reviews
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    Transfiguring the Word (Review)
    Peter Cooley
    The Carrier of Ladders, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    The North American Review (New), Winter 1970, p. 72
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    A Poetry of Darkness (2 Reviews)
    Richard Howard
    The Carrier of Ladders, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    2. The Miner's Pale Children by W.S. Merwin
    The Nation, December 14, 1970, p. 634
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    Book Forum (2 Reviews)
    Robert Scholes
    The Miner's Pale Children, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Miner's Pale Children by W.S. Merwin
    2. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    The Saturday Review, October 31, 1970, pp. 30-31
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    New Sounds, New Silences (4 Reviews)
    Peter Davison
    The Carrier of Ladders, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    2. Darker by Mark Strand
    3. Collecting Evidence by Hugh Seidman
    4. By Daylight and In Dream by John Hall Wheelock
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1971, pp. 96-97
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    Waiting for the End (7 Reviews)
    Denis Donoghue
    The Gulf, and Other Poems, by Derek Walcott
    1. The Gulf, and Other Poems by Derek Walcott
    2. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    3. Darker by Mark Strand
    4. The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems by James Merrill
    5. The Whispering Roots, and Other Poems by C. Day Lewis
    6. Collecting Evidence by Hugh Seidman
    7. Baby Breakdown by Anne Waldman
    The New York Review of Books, May 6, 1971, pp. 27-30
  6. Books
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    The Magicians (14 Reviews)
    G.S. Fraser
    Love and Fame, by John Berryman
    1. Love and Fame by John Berryman
    2. City Without Walls, and Other Poems by W.H. Auden
    3. Fifty Poems Fifty by Reed Whittemore
    4. Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
    5. Earth Walk by William Meredith
    6. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    7. The Miner's Pale Children by W.S. Merwin
    8. The Alligator Bride by Donald Hall
    9. The Zig-Zag Walk by John Logan
    10. Crow by Ted Hughes
    11. The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy by James Dickey
    12. Regarding Wave by Gary Snyder
    13. Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov
    14. Iconographs by May Swenson
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1971, pp. 469-479
  7. Reviews
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    October Thoughts (19 Reviews)
    Vernon Young
    A Further Collection of Chinese Lyrics, and Other Poems, by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mack...
    1. A Further Collection of Chinese Lyrics, and Other Poems by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh
    2. Fire Gardens by Ivan V. Lalic
    3. New Poetry of Mexico by Mark Strand
    4. Postwar Polish Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
    5. The Twelve, and Other Poems by Aleksandr Blok
    6. Horst Bienek: Poems by Horst Bienek
    7. The Dolphin with the Revolver in Its Teeth by George Hitchcock
    8. Iconographs by May Swenson
    9. Darker by Mark Strand
    10. Green Business by John N. Morris
    11. The Man with the Black Mouth by R.G. Vliet
    12. Skin Diving in the Virgins, and Other Poems by John Malcolm Brinnin
    13. Fifty Poems Fifty by Reed Whittemore
    14. New Poems by John Holloway
    15. A Chosen Light by John Montague
    16. The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
    17. The Miner's Pale Children by W.S. Merwin
    18. The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems by James Merrill
    19. Transparence of the World by Jean Follain
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1970, pp. 733-746