Posts Tagged: WS Merwin

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber

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“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: W. S. Merwin: An Appreciation

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The psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tess Taylor

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.

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Selected Translations by W. S. Merwin

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The translation of poetry requires justification. Not necessarily for conceptual reasons, but because the experience of reading translated poetry however transcendent and beautiful always feels lacking, incomplete, like living in a body missing some essential organ. Of course, this remains true of prose as well, but poetry, which depends more on the idiosyncratic musicality, imagery, […]

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