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W. S. Merwin. 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.
William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and raised in New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His numerous collections of poetry, his translations, and his books of prose have won praise over seven decades.
Sep 26, 2024 · W.S. Merwin (born September 30, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 15, 2019, Haiku, Hawaii) was an American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment.
Mar 15, 2019 · W. S. Merwin, a formidable American poet who for more than 60 years labored under a formidable poetic yoke: the imperative of using language — an inescapably concrete presence on the printed page...
W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was a prolific, leading American writer whose poetry, translations, and prose won praise and broad readerships over seven decades.
W. S. Merwin. 1927 –. 2019. Poet Laureate of the United States, 2010–2011; Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry, 2000. Read poems by this poet. William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927.
Jul 23, 2017 · The Lice, W.S. Merwin’s sixth and possibly most iconic collection of poetry, was published in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War. When the book first appeared, some readers shuddered: its confluence of mythology and ugly physical reality struck a nerve with a world shaken politically and environmentally to its core.
W. S. Merwin. Merwin was born in New York and raised first in Union City, New Jersey, and then in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He studied Romance Languages at Princeton University, where he worked with poet John Berryman and poet-critic R.P. Blackmur.
Mar 15, 2019 · One of America's most respected and enduring poets, W.S. Merwin, has died. Merwin's poetry is known for its mystery and wonder, and he was twice named the U.S. poet laureate.
Mar 22, 2019 · W.S. Merwin, who was appointed poet laureate of the United States in 2010, died last Friday at age 91. When he won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, the judges' citation read, quote,...
