W.S. Merwin Has Died
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W.S. Merwin Has Died
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#3Merwin 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...
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#4Separation
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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#5if any of this remains it will not be me
from "Hoelderlin at the River"/The Vixen
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#6Merwin 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 Tomor…
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.
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#7 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 nightRe: W.S. Merwin Has Died
#8This poem seems appropriate: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43118/for-the-anniver...