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W.S. Merwin • 388 Items / 33 Books, 68 Articles, 17 Reviews, 269 Poems, 1 Film
The Compass Flower (1977)
by W.S. Merwin
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    Verse Chronicle (13 Reviews)
    David Bromwich
    Geography III, by Elizabeth Bishop
    1. Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
    2. The Compass Flower by W.S. Merwin
    3. Away by Robert Creeley
    4. Waiting for the King of Spain by Diane Wakoski
    5. Selected Poems by Lucien Stryk
    6. Behind the Eyes by Edgell Rickword
    7. Collected Poems, 1936-1976 by Robert Francis
    8. New Collected Poems by Robert Graves
    9. The Faber Book of Irish Verse by John Montague
    10. Lucretius: The Poem on Nature by C.H. Sisson and Lucretius
    11. Selected Poems, 1923-1975 by Robert Penn Warren
    12. Moon-Whales, and Other Moon Poems by Ted Hughes
    13. Keeping Time by Judith Moffett
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1977, pp. 279-292
  2. The Year's Books
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    Poetry (17 Reviews)
    Harold Bloom
    Day by Day, by Robert Lowell
    1. Day by Day by Robert Lowell
    2. Henry's Fate, and Other Poems, 1967-1972 by John Berryman and John Haffenden
    3. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
    4. Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
    5. The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 by A.R. Ammons
    6. The Compass Flower by W.S. Merwin
    7. Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht
    8. The Fuhrer Bunker by W.D. Snodgrass
    9. Six Troubadour Songs by W.D. Snodgrass
    10. The Duplications by Kenneth Koch
    11. The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart
    12. China Trace by Charles Wright
    13. Lateness by David Shapiro
    14. Soothsayers and Omens by Jay Wright
    15. Keeping Time by Judith Moffett
    16. Comforting the Wilderness by Robert B. Shaw
    17. The Reading of an Ever-Changing Tale by John Yau
    The New Republic, November 26, 1977, pp. 24-25
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    Synecdoche (25 Reviews)
    Brief Poetry Notes
    1. The Private Life by Lisel Mueller
    2. Often in Different Landscapes by Leon Stokesbury
    3. Turns by John Matthias
    4. New Collected Poems by Robert Graves
    5. Ladder of the World's Joy by Sarah Appleton
    6. Hocus-Pocus of the Universe by Laura Gilpin
    7. Selected Poems by Lucien Stryk
    8. The Compass Flower by W.S. Merwin
    9. Wit's End by Joseph Di Prisco
    10. The Names of the Lost by Philip Levine
    11. Ariana Olisvos, Her Last Works and Days by David Dwyer
    12. The Zodiac by James Dickey
    13. Cumberland Station by Dave Smith
    14. Dialogue with a Dead Man by Jim Miller
    15. Claiming Kin by Ellen Bryant Voigt
    16. Room to Breathe by David Clewell
    17. Griffon by Stephen Dobyns
    18. Hush by David St. John
    19. Shaken by Leaf-Fall by James Hearst
    20. Familiar Poems, Annotated by Isaac Asimov
    21. The Freeing of the Dust by Denise Levertov
    22. Keeping Time by Judith Moffett
    23. Maria by Maria Ingram
    24. The Prose Poem by Michael Benedikt
    25. Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forche
    The North American Review (New), Spring 1977, pp. 74-75