W. S. Merwin, accomplished poet, and his exclusive full interview with 92nd Street Y
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...W.S. Merwin. I took a short workshop with him in the late-1990s at Colorado College. At the end of the workshop, Merwin gave a reading at the college's chapel. The remarkable thing is that Merwin mostly read the poems of his favorite poets. More than an hour of other poets -- introducing the poems, reciting the poems, discussing the poems. Then Merwin finished by reading a few of his own poems. It was almost a throwaway. Merwin was so modest. His modesty, in the context of his literary genius, his erudition, his environmental activism in Hawaii, his generosity to students, his impossible handsomeness, all took my breath away.
He has such beautiful cadence, the way it seems to flow off his tongue like his lungs contain nothing but poetry.
Love hearing this story telling, about both his parents being orphans, Pennsylvania, France, Aunt Mary, Montaigne, the delicate relationship to eyesight, city / country life. Amazing to see such a grand poet on paper and champion of ecology come to life before our eyes - a treasure! RIP
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I'll be rewatching this so many times.
Thank you, W.S. Merwin ,for your graceful acknowlegment of your and our debt to Ezra Pound, and for the fine poem for Paula.
JUST AN EXTRAORDINARY POET!
It's a shame that this splendid video doesn't have more views -- it's also a shame that so few Americans recognize that one of their nation's premier poets of the late 20th / early 21st centuries was inspired to write English-language poetry, in part, by great Spanish poetry.
my favorite AMERICAN POET!
Such a great man. The tip of his index finger on his left hand is gone.
So who is Merwin's readers. Who does he write for.
I'm a Poet and he Refused to Blurb my Book, despite being the first to sweep all 3 poetry Awards @ my University. Not a generous man.
He didn't owe you a blurb.
Is was such?
Nay, 'tis not
Such is
Just is
Like a fart
Oh, 'tis
Bukowski the greatest poet of all time!
As if.
I find him somewhat Boring.
what have you ever done for poetry? or for tree planting?
Why did you capitalize that word like a surname?