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An Appreciation: W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019


  So let me lie in a story, heavy with evening. —“Variation on a Line by Emerson”   Did any other poet of our time ever lead such a charmed, bejeweled life or write such beguiling poetry as William Stanley Merwin? From the 1950s until his death on the Ides of March 2019, Merwin was […]

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