W.S. Merwin Has Died

Posted by akakievich on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:03PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

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

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by laurex on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:31PM (#19435475)

Separation

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

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by jonah-archive on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:11PM (#19434486)

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...

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by pmarreck on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:12PM (#19437922)

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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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by tnvaught on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:26AM (#19443123)

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

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by akakievich on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:04PM (#19425287)

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

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by shadowofsirius on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:09AM (#19439720)

   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

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Re:W.S. Merwin Has Died by propertius on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:15PM (#19437152)

if any of this remains it will not be me

from "Hoelderlin at the River"/The Vixen

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