[Kyle Norwood]

I particularly love one of his later volumes, Travels (1993). That book has some wonderful narrative poems and, in a few cases, a return to rhyme and regular meter. Merwin is most often associated with the "deep image" school of the 1970's, a style that is easily parodied and has fallen out of fashion, but there's some remarkable poetry in The Lice (1967) and The Carrier of Ladders (1970), along with some work that feels dated. "For the Anniversary of My Death" and "The Last One" (both from The Lice) are touchstone poems for me. Even some of Merwin's very early poems deserve a look: "The Mountain" and "The Station" from Green With Beasts (1956) are two that come to mind. He has an excellent, though quite large, volume of selected poems called Migration.