The Poetry of Astonishment: Rereading Garden Time by W. S.
W.S. Merwin loves mornings. In his more than fifty books, the former US Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize depicts morning’s beauty in mist, light, shadow, and birdsong. As Merwin captures these moments of nature’s awakening, he reveals the depths of his own awakenings too.
Poets like W. S Merwin convey this concept of simultaneity in his three poems, “For the Anniversary of My Death, Losing a Language, and Drunk in the Furnace.” Merwin mixes-up chronological time in his poems to combine the past with the present.
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A list of texts by W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
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This essay explores the substitution of the anonymous Other for the Judeo-Christian Other in the work of American poet W. S. Merwin. Abandoning the univocal salvation theme in Christian theology.
Merwin explored personal childhood memories as well as such universal themes as mortality in The Shadow of Sirius (2008), which earned a Pulitzer Prize. Much of his oeuvre was published by the Library of America (LOA) as the two-volume The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin (2013). Merwin was only the second living writer to be so surveyed by the LOA.