Poetry. Like Neruda and Paz, Perse and Milosz, Christopher Merrill is both a writer and a diplomat, crisscrossing the globe as chronicler and courier. BOAT records a series of passages over a decade,
In three extended essays, Merrill, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, relates his travels to different parts of the world in the post-9/11 era and reflects on the
