W. S. Merwin, who died last week at age 91, wrote in a lyric register to capture the epic brutality and organized violence of the 20th century. His poems are promontories from which readers can see, ...
W.S. Merwin, whose austere lyricism in poems about the fragility of the natural world and the horrors of the Vietnam War earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and made him one of the preeminent ...
W.S. Merwin, celebrated poet and conservationist who wrote about the fragility and beauty of the natural world and the impermanence of human life within it, has died at 91. The Merwin Conservancy, a ...
In his 1964 poem “Soon I will be gone,” W.S. Merwin wrote: “It is March and black dust falls out of the books.” It wasn’t soon, but it was too soon. The poet, who died on Friday at age 91, had always ...
I first encountered the poetry of W.S. Merwin in 1987. I was a newly converted English major, and the assignment was to peruse our poetry anthology and note any poems that intrigued us. I still ...
The former U.S. poet laureate, who died March 15, was a prolific writer as well as a conservationist and a conscientious objector during World War II. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2008. This is FRESH AIR.
W.S. Merwin, a prolific and versatile master of modern poetry who evolved through a wide range of styles as he celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, has ...
Author of more than 50 books of his own poetry, translations of others, memoirs and more, Merwin's major prizes include the Pulitzer in 1970 for "The Carrier of Ladders" and the National Book Award ...
W. S. Merwin is a poet of paradoxes. In a 60-year career, he has made astonishing poetry of the separation from nature one experiences even in its midst. He has prophesied apocalypse to stave off ...
W. S. Merwin acknowledges that his relatively reclusive life on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii, will be disturbed by the Library of Congress’s announcement ...
W.S. Merwin, a prolific and versatile poetry master who evolved through a wide range of styles as he celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, died today. He ...
NEW YORK (AP) — W.S. Merwin, a prolific and versatile poetry master who evolved through a wide range of styles as he celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past ...
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