What We’re Reading Now
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Like you, we’re reading a lot these days. Here are a few of the books on the shelves and nightstands of Merwin Conservancy staff, directors, and advisors. Let us know which books you’re reading, in the comments below.
The Popol Vuh by Michael Bazzett (Translator)
The Tree by John Fowles
An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
Summer Snow by Robert Hass
Ledger by Jane Hirshfield
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson by W.S. Merwin (Translator)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Cast Away: Poems for Our Time by Naomi Shihab Nye
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Spillover by David Quammen
Grief Works by Julia Samuel
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons by Jay Walljasper
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls
The Essential W.S. Merwin, edited by Michael Wiegers
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
Dark Mountain, Issue 17, Spring 2020 by multiple authors and artists
