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W. S. Merwin

January 01, 1970

William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation.[1] During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.

W. S. Merwin
Merwin in 2003
BornWilliam Stanley Merwin
(1927-09-30)September 30, 1927
New York City, U.S.
DiedMarch 15, 2019(2019-03-15) (aged 91)
Haiku, Hawaii, U.S.
OccupationPoet
EducationPrinceton University (attended)
Period1952–2019
GenrePoetry, prose, translation
Notable awardsSee below
SpouseDorothy Jeanne Ferry
Dido Milroy
Paula Dunaway (1983–2017)
Signature

Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009;[2] the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005,[3] and the Tanning Prize — one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets — as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate.[4][5] Alongside co-author Takako Lento, he received the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2013 for their translation of Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson.[6]

Early life edit

 
Merwin grew up on this street in Union City, New Jersey, which was renamed for him in 2006.

W. S. Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. He grew up on the corner of Fourth Street and New York Avenue in Union City, New Jersey, and lived there until 1936, when his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania. As a child, Merwin was enamored of the natural world, sometimes finding himself talking to the large tree in his back yard. He was also fascinated with things that he saw as links to the past, such as the building behind his home that had once been a barn which housed a horse and carriage.[7] At the age of five he started writing hymns for his father,[8] a Presbyterian minister.[5]

Career edit

Early career: 1952–1976 edit

After attending Princeton University in 1952, Merwin married Dorothy Jeanne Ferry, and moved to Spain. During his stay there, while visiting the renowned poet Robert Graves at his homestead on the island of Majorca, he served as tutor to Graves's son. There, he met Dido Milroy, fifteen years his senior, with whom he collaborated on a play and whom he later married and lived with in London. In 1956, Merwin moved to Boston for a fellowship at the Poets' Theater. He returned to London, where he befriended Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1968, Merwin moved to New York City, separating from his wife Dido Milroy, who stayed at their home in France. In the late 1970s, Merwin moved to Hawaii and eventually was divorced from Dido Milroy. He married Paula Dunaway in 1983.[9]

From 1956 to 1957, Merwin was also playwright-in-residence at the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he became poetry editor at The Nation in 1962. Besides being a prolific poet, he was a respected translator of Spanish, French, Latin and Italian literature and poetry (including Lazarillo de Tormes and Dante's Purgatorio)[10][11] as well as poetry from Sanskrit, Yiddish, Middle English, Japanese and Quechua. He served as selector of poems of the American poet Craig Arnold (1967–2009).[12]

Merwin is known for his poetry about the Vietnam War and can be included among the canon of Vietnam War-era poets which includes writers Robert Bly, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and Yusef Komunyakaa.[13]

Merwin's early subjects were frequently tied to mythological or legendary themes, while many of his poems featured animals. A volume called The Drunk in the Furnace (1960) marked a change for Merwin, in that he began to write in a more autobiographical way.[14]

In the 1960s, Merwin lived in a small apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village.[7]

Later career: 1977–2019 edit

Merwin's volume Migration: New and Selected Poems won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.[15]

In 1998, Merwin wrote Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, an ambitious novel-in-verse about Hawaiʻi in history and legend.[16]

The Shadow of Sirius, published in 2008 by Copper Canyon Press, was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.[2]

In June 2010, the Library of Congress named Merwin the seventeenth United States Poet Laureate, to replace the outgoing Kay Ryan.[4][5] He is the subject of the 2014 feature documentary film Even Though the Whole World Is Burning, directed by Stefan Schaefer. A one-hour version, entitled "To Plant a Tree", was broadcast nationally on PBS. Merwin appeared in the PBS documentary The Buddha, released in 2010. He had moved to Hawaii to study with the Zen Buddhist master Robert Aitken in 1976.[17]

In 2010, with his wife Paula, he co-founded The Merwin Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hand-built, off-the-grid poet's home and 18-acre restored property in Haiku, Maui, which has been transformed from an "agricultural wasteland" to a "Noah's Ark" for rare palm trees, one of the largest and most biodiverse collections of palms in the world.[18]

Merwin's last book of poetry, Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), was composed during the difficult process of losing his eyesight. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated poems to his wife, Paula. It is a book about aging and the practice of living one's life in the present. Writing about Garden Time in The New York Times, Jeff Gordinier suggests that "Merwin's work feels like part of some timeless continuum, a river that stretches all the way back to Han Shan and Li Po."[19]

In 2017, Copper Canyon Press published The Essential W. S. Merwin, a book which traces the seven-decade legacy of Merwin's poetry, with selections ranging from his 1952 debut, A Mask for Janus, to 2016's Garden Time, as well as a selection of translations and lesser-known prose narratives. Merwin's literary papers are held at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The collection consists of some 5,500 archival items, and 450 printed books.[20][21]

Death edit

Merwin lived on land that was part of a pineapple plantation, on the northeast coast of Maui, Hawaii.[4][5]

W.S Merwin died on March 15, 2019, in his sleep at his home, as reported by his publisher Copper Canyon Press.[22]

Awards edit

Other accolades edit

Merwin's hometown honored him in 2006 by renaming a local street near his childhood home W. S. Merwin Way.[7]

Bibliography edit

Main article: W. S. Merwin bibliography

Other sources edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Amazon.com Official Profile". Amazon. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  3. ^ "2005 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d Kennicott, Philip (July 1, 2010). "W. S. Merwin, Hawaii-based poet, will serve as 17th U.S. laureate". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d Cohen, Patricia (June 30, 2010). "W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  6. ^ "Archive of past prize winners for the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Donald Keene Center. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c Diaz, Lana Rose. "Merwin Speaks"; The Union City Reporter, July 11, 2010, pages 1 & 9.
  8. ^ "About W. S. Merwin". English.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  9. ^ Smith, Dinitia (February 19, 1995). "A Poet of Their Own". The New York Times. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  10. ^ "An Online Interview with W. S. Merwin". English.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  11. ^ Wutz, Michael; Crimmel, Hal (May 21, 2015). Conversations with W. S. Merwin. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-619-0. Retrieved January 21, 2018 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Today's poem is "asunder"". Verse Daily. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  13. ^ Mosson, Gregg. "American Poetry: Vietnam and Today". The Potomac. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  14. ^ Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel, Michael and Hal Crimmel (2015). Conversations with W. S. Merwin. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62846-222-7. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  15. ^ a b "National Book Awards – 2005". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
    (With acceptance speech by Merwin, essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.)
  16. ^ Kramer, Michael (October 8, 1998). "Hawaii's History, By Chapter and Verse" (PDF). Newsday. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  17. ^ "Featured Scholars and Poets – The Buddha". Pbs.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  18. ^ "The Merwin Conservancy". The Merwin Conservancy. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  19. ^ Gordinier, Jeff (September 19, 2016). "Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets". The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  20. ^ W.S. Merwin papers (Merwin 1). Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  21. ^ W.S. Merwin personal collection of books. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  22. ^ "Poet W. S. Merwin, Who Was Inspired By Conservation, Dies At 91". NPR.org. March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  23. ^ a b Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation, Accessed October 23, 2010
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Elizabeth C. Clarage, "1971: W. S. Merwin" article, p. 534, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press (1999), ISBN 1-57356-111-8, retrieved via Google Books on June 8, 2010
  25. ^ a b c d e f News release, "Poet W. S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15, September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010
  26. ^ Routledge Staff (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Routledge. p. 383. ISBN 1-85743-179-0. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
  27. ^ a b c W. S. Merwin October 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine at Barclay Agency, Accessed October 23, 2010
  28. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  29. ^ "The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners/Poetry", Pulitzer.org; Accessed October 23, 2010
  30. ^ "Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement". KenyonReview.org.
  31. ^ "There's a flame in me that thinks…" April 11, 2019, at the Wayback Machine. Fundacja im. Zbigniewa Herberta. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

Further reading edit

  • Armenti, Peter. W. S. Merwin: Online Resources, Library of Congress, accessed November 25, 2010.
  • at the Steven Barclay Agency, accessed November 25, 2010.
  • Norton, Ingrid. "Second Glance: Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one" March 24, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Open Letters Monthly, accessed November 25, 2010.
  • Edward Hirsch (Spring 1987). "W. S. Merwin, The Art of Poetry No. 38". The Paris Review. Spring 1987 (102).
  • Kubota, Gary T. "Catching Up With Maui's Most Famous Poet: At Home and at Peace In a Tropical Landscape, W. S. Merwin Enriches the Literature of Nature" June 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 21, 2001
  • W. S. Merwin – Online Poems, Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, accessed November 25, 2010.
  • Lerner, Ben. "The Emptiness at the End" Jacket magazine, October 2005

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to W. S. Merwin.
  • The Merwin Conservancy
  • W. S. Merwin at Poets.org
  • Profile and poems of W. S. Merwin, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation
  • "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry". Academy of Achievement, July 3, 2008
  • W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree PBS
  • Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Letters to W.S. (William Stanley) and Dido Merwin, 1958–1969

January 01, 1970
merwin, william, stanley, merwin, september, 1927, march, 2019, american, poet, wrote, more, than, fifty, books, poetry, prose, produced, many, works, translation, during, 1960s, anti, movement, merwin, unique, craft, thematically, characterized, indirect, unp. William Stanley Merwin September 30 1927 March 15 2019 was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation 1 During the 1960s anti war movement Merwin s unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect unpunctuated narration In the 1980s and 1990s his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology Residing in a rural part of Maui Hawaii he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island s rainforests W S MerwinMerwin in 2003BornWilliam Stanley Merwin 1927 09 30 September 30 1927New York City U S DiedMarch 15 2019 2019 03 15 aged 91 Haiku Hawaii U S OccupationPoetEducationPrinceton University attended Period1952 2019GenrePoetry prose translationNotable awardsSee belowSpouseDorothy Jeanne FerryDido MilroyPaula Dunaway 1983 2017 Signature Merwin received many honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009 2 the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005 3 and the Tanning Prize one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings In 2010 the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate 4 5 Alongside co author Takako Lento he received the Japan U S Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2013 for their translation of Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson 6 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early career 1952 1976 2 2 Later career 1977 2019 3 Death 4 Awards 4 1 Other accolades 5 Bibliography 6 Other sources 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life edit nbsp Merwin grew up on this street in Union City New Jersey which was renamed for him in 2006 W S Merwin was born in New York City on September 30 1927 He grew up on the corner of Fourth Street and New York Avenue in Union City New Jersey and lived there until 1936 when his family moved to Scranton Pennsylvania As a child Merwin was enamored of the natural world sometimes finding himself talking to the large tree in his back yard He was also fascinated with things that he saw as links to the past such as the building behind his home that had once been a barn which housed a horse and carriage 7 At the age of five he started writing hymns for his father 8 a Presbyterian minister 5 Career editEarly career 1952 1976 edit After attending Princeton University in 1952 Merwin married Dorothy Jeanne Ferry and moved to Spain During his stay there while visiting the renowned poet Robert Graves at his homestead on the island of Majorca he served as tutor to Graves s son There he met Dido Milroy fifteen years his senior with whom he collaborated on a play and whom he later married and lived with in London In 1956 Merwin moved to Boston for a fellowship at the Poets Theater He returned to London where he befriended Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes In 1968 Merwin moved to New York City separating from his wife Dido Milroy who stayed at their home in France In the late 1970s Merwin moved to Hawaii and eventually was divorced from Dido Milroy He married Paula Dunaway in 1983 9 From 1956 to 1957 Merwin was also playwright in residence at the Poet s Theatre in Cambridge Massachusetts he became poetry editor at The Nation in 1962 Besides being a prolific poet he was a respected translator of Spanish French Latin and Italian literature and poetry including Lazarillo de Tormes and Dante s Purgatorio 10 11 as well as poetry from Sanskrit Yiddish Middle English Japanese and Quechua He served as selector of poems of the American poet Craig Arnold 1967 2009 12 Merwin is known for his poetry about the Vietnam War and can be included among the canon of Vietnam War era poets which includes writers Robert Bly Robert Duncan Adrienne Rich Denise Levertov Robert Lowell Allen Ginsberg and Yusef Komunyakaa 13 Merwin s early subjects were frequently tied to mythological or legendary themes while many of his poems featured animals A volume called The Drunk in the Furnace 1960 marked a change for Merwin in that he began to write in a more autobiographical way 14 In the 1960s Merwin lived in a small apartment in New York City s Greenwich Village 7 Later career 1977 2019 edit Merwin s volume Migration New and Selected Poems won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry 15 In 1998 Merwin wrote Folding Cliffs A Narrative an ambitious novel in verse about Hawaiʻi in history and legend 16 The Shadow of Sirius published in 2008 by Copper Canyon Press was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry 2 In June 2010 the Library of Congress named Merwin the seventeenth United States Poet Laureate to replace the outgoing Kay Ryan 4 5 He is the subject of the 2014 feature documentary film Even Though the Whole World Is Burning directed by Stefan Schaefer A one hour version entitled To Plant a Tree was broadcast nationally on PBS Merwin appeared in the PBS documentary The Buddha released in 2010 He had moved to Hawaii to study with the Zen Buddhist master Robert Aitken in 1976 17 In 2010 with his wife Paula he co founded The Merwin Conservancy a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hand built off the grid poet s home and 18 acre restored property in Haiku Maui which has been transformed from an agricultural wasteland to a Noah s Ark for rare palm trees one of the largest and most biodiverse collections of palms in the world 18 Merwin s last book of poetry Garden Time Copper Canyon Press 2016 was composed during the difficult process of losing his eyesight When he could no longer see well enough to write he dictated poems to his wife Paula It is a book about aging and the practice of living one s life in the present Writing about Garden Time in The New York Times Jeff Gordinier suggests that Merwin s work feels like part of some timeless continuum a river that stretches all the way back to Han Shan and Li Po 19 In 2017 Copper Canyon Press published The Essential W S Merwin a book which traces the seven decade legacy of Merwin s poetry with selections ranging from his 1952 debut A Mask for Janus to 2016 s Garden Time as well as a selection of translations and lesser known prose narratives Merwin s literary papers are held at the Rare Book amp Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign The collection consists of some 5 500 archival items and 450 printed books 20 21 Death editMerwin lived on land that was part of a pineapple plantation on the northeast coast of Maui Hawaii 4 5 W S Merwin died on March 15 2019 in his sleep at his home as reported by his publisher Copper Canyon Press 22 Awards edit1952 Yale Younger Poets Prize for A Mask for Janus 23 1954 Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry 24 1956 Rockefeller Fellowship 24 1957 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant 24 1957 Playwrighting Bursary Arts Council of Great Britain 24 1961 Rabinowitz Foundation Grant 24 1962 Bess Hokin Prize Poetry magazine 24 1964 1965 Ford Foundation Grant 24 1966 Chapelbrook Foundation Fellowship 24 1967 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize Poetry magazine 24 1969 PEN Translation Prize for Selected Translations 1948 1968 25 1969 Rockefeller Foundation Grant 24 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Carrier of Ladders published in 1971 25 1973 Academy of American Poets Fellowship 24 1974 Shelley Memorial Award 24 1979 Bollingen Prize for Poetry Yale University Library 24 1987 Governor s Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii 25 1990 Maurice English Poetry Award 26 1993 The Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry 25 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Travels 25 1994 Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Writers Award 25 1999 Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress a jointly held position with Rita Dove and Louise Gluck 27 2005 National Book Award for Poetry for Migration New and Selected Poems 15 23 2004 Golden Wreath Award of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia 27 2004 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award 27 2008 Golden Plate Award American Academy of Achievement 28 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius published in 2008 29 2010 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement 30 2010 United States Poet Laureate 4 2013 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 31 Other accolades edit Merwin s hometown honored him in 2006 by renaming a local street near his childhood home W S Merwin Way 7 Bibliography editMain article W S Merwin bibliographyOther sources editThe Union City Reporter March 12 2006 References edit Amazon com Official Profile Amazon Retrieved October 7 2012 a b Poetry Past winners amp finalists by category The Pulitzer Prizes Retrieved April 8 2012 2005 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists The National Book Foundation Nationalbook org Retrieved January 21 2018 a b c d Kennicott Philip July 1 2010 W S Merwin Hawaii based poet will serve as 17th U S laureate The Washington Post Retrieved July 1 2010 a b c d Cohen Patricia June 30 2010 W S Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate The New York Times Retrieved July 9 2010 Archive of past prize winners for the Japan U S Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature Donald Keene Center Retrieved February 26 2024 a b c Diaz Lana Rose Merwin Speaks The Union City Reporter July 11 2010 pages 1 amp 9 About W S Merwin English illinois edu Retrieved January 21 2018 Smith Dinitia February 19 1995 A Poet of Their Own The New York Times Retrieved March 30 2010 An Online Interview with W S Merwin English illinois edu Retrieved January 21 2018 Wutz Michael Crimmel Hal May 21 2015 Conversations with W S Merwin Univ Press of Mississippi ISBN 978 1 62674 619 0 Retrieved January 21 2018 via Google Books Today s poem is asunder Verse Daily Retrieved February 17 2017 Mosson Gregg American Poetry Vietnam and Today The Potomac Retrieved February 17 2017 Michael Wutz Hal Crimmel Michael and Hal Crimmel 2015 Conversations with W S Merwin Jackson Univ Press of Mississippi ISBN 978 1 62846 222 7 Retrieved February 17 2017 a b National Book Awards 2005 National Book Foundation Retrieved 2012 04 08 With acceptance speech by Merwin essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60 year anniversary blog and other material Kramer Michael October 8 1998 Hawaii s History By Chapter and Verse PDF Newsday Retrieved February 17 2017 Featured Scholars and Poets The Buddha Pbs org Retrieved January 21 2018 The Merwin Conservancy The Merwin Conservancy Retrieved March 16 2019 Gordinier Jeff September 19 2016 Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets The New York Times Retrieved January 21 2018 W S Merwin papers Merwin 1 Rare Book amp Manuscript Library University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign W S Merwin personal collection of books Rare Book amp Manuscript Library University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Poet W S Merwin Who Was Inspired By Conservation Dies At 91 NPR org March 15 2019 Retrieved March 16 2019 a b Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation Accessed October 23 2010 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brennan Elizabeth A and Elizabeth C Clarage 1971 W S Merwin article p 534 Who s Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners Phoenix Arizona The Oryx Press 1999 ISBN 1 57356 111 8 retrieved via Google Books on June 8 2010 a b c d e f News release Poet W S Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15 September 22 1997 Library of Congress website retrieved June 8 2010 Routledge Staff 2003 International Who s Who of Authors and Writers 2004 Routledge p 383 ISBN 1 85743 179 0 Retrieved July 20 2008 a b c W S Merwin Archived October 1 2005 at the Wayback Machine at Barclay Agency Accessed October 23 2010 Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement achievement org American Academy of Achievement The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners Poetry Pulitzer org Accessed October 23 2010 Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement KenyonReview org There s a flame in me that thinks Archived April 11 2019 at the Wayback Machine Fundacja im Zbigniewa Herberta Retrieved January 25 2014 Further reading editArmenti Peter W S Merwin Online Resources Library of Congress accessed November 25 2010 W S Merwin at the Steven Barclay Agency accessed November 25 2010 Norton Ingrid Second Glance Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one Archived March 24 2019 at the Wayback Machine Open Letters Monthly accessed November 25 2010 Edward Hirsch Spring 1987 W S Merwin The Art of Poetry No 38 The Paris Review Spring 1987 102 Kubota Gary T Catching Up With Maui s Most Famous Poet At Home and at Peace In a Tropical Landscape W S Merwin Enriches the Literature of Nature Archived June 29 2008 at the Wayback Machine Honolulu Star Bulletin April 21 2001 W S Merwin Online Poems Modern American Poetry University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign accessed November 25 2010 Lerner Ben The Emptiness at the End Jacket magazine October 2005External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to W S Merwin The Merwin Conservancy W S Merwin at Poets org Profile and poems of W S Merwin including audio files at the Poetry Foundation Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry Academy of Achievement July 3 2008 W S Merwin To Plant a Tree PBS Stuart A Rose Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library Emory University Letters to W S William Stanley and Dido Merwin 1958 1969 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title W S Merwin amp oldid 1217567553, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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