The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber
“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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...moreThe psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.
...moreCamden Avery reviews W. S. Merwin’s The Moon Before Morning today in Rumpus Poetry.
...more“Separation” expresses the paradoxical intersection of the instantaneous and the enduring.
...morePatrick James Dunagan reviews The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe 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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