The pupil
Following the success of his translation of Dante's Purgatorio and of his most recent collection, The River Sound (hailed by Richard Howard as "the most intimate, the most vulnerable of all Merwin's work, " and by Peter Davison as "Astonishing . . . Engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match."), W.S. Merwin gives us a new collection of poetry, written in his mesmerizing voice