Watch Fire

White Pine Press
Christopher Merrill
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"Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation..... This collection shows a complex talent developing and extending its original high promise."--W.S. Merwin

Contributor Bio

Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; several edited volumes and works in translation; and four books of nonfiction. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.