W.S. Merwin Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/obituaries/w-s-merwin-dead-poet-laureate.html

by akakievich • 7 years ago

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akakievich• 7 years ago

Also https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/15/crashing-w-s-....

Merwin was a remarkable writer. The Poetry Foundation's obituary has links to some of his more well-known poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/144293/remember...

And the New Yorker posted a piece talking about him with links to many of the prose pieces he wrote for them: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/w-s-merwin-in-th...

Including an old favorite of mine, "The Remembering Machines of Tomorrow", written in 1969: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1969/11/29/the-rememberin...

There's a copy that appears to be readable without a paywall here: https://books.google.com/books?id=o6zuPVOrVIQC&lpg=PA105&ots...

pmarreck• 7 years ago

That last link won't let me read past the first page over here, but it already seems remarkably prescient... now I gotta read the rest!

Seems like a remarkable creative, even though I just learned of him. RIP.

laurex• 7 years ago

Separation

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

propertius• 7 years ago

if any of this remains it will not be me

from "Hoelderlin at the River"/The Vixen

shadowofsirius• 7 years ago

   LIGHTS OUT

   The old grieving autumn goes on calling to its summer
   the valley is calling to other valleys beyond the ridge
   each star is roaring alone into darkness
   there is not a sound in the whole night

tnvaught• 7 years ago

This poem seems appropriate: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43118/for-the-anniver...

W.S. Merwin Has Died

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