W.S. Merwin wrote nearly every day of his life, from the morning until about two in the afternoon. Across seven decades, his dedicated practice produced an extraordinary range of critically-acclaimed poetry, prose, and translations. His writing is collected in nearly fifty books. In the introduction to The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press), William’s longtime editor Michael Wiegers wrote: “W.S. Merwin’s poems have illuminated their tumultuous times, global and domestic, and all the while he has, through his poetry, consistently discovered and created grace.”