What to Read After First Four Books of Poems
Readers who loved First Four Books of Poems by W. S. Merwin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where First Four Books of Poems is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after First Four Books of Poems
Song
What the Living Do
The country between us
Dancing in Odessa
Geography III
Glass, Irony, and God
What we carry
Averno
The wild iris
Collected Poems
The complete poems
Selected poems II
Dream Work
Ararat
Proofs & theories
What Narcissism Means to Me
The dead and the living
Seven Ages
The Triggering Town
Praise
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
Given Sugar, Given Salt
Satan says