The poet W. S. Merwin passed away on March 15, marking the conclusion to a long and richly productive life. His body of poetry proves difficult to sum up. Over the course of his seven decades of writing, Merwin changed …
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After the Dash: Last Words of the Politically and Historically Infamous
The thing that is so fascinating about a person’s final words is, of course, that the person rarely knows those utterances will be his or her last. One of my favorite poems is W.S. Merwin‘s “For the Anniversary of My …
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Was Pablo Neruda Murdered?
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there …