Merwin is known for his poetry about the Vietnam War and can be included among the canon of Vietnam War-era poets which includes writers Robert Bly, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, …

William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and raised in New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His numerous collections of poetry, his …

W.S. Merwin, American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment. He won the Pulitzer …

William Stanley Merwin, also known as W. S. Merwin (September 30, 1927 in New York City, New York – March 15, 2019 in Maui, Hawaii) was an American poet, writer, and translator who twice received …

W.S. Merwin wrote nearly every day of his life, from the morning until about two in the afternoon. Across seven decades, his dedicated practice produced an extraordinary range of critically-acclaimed …

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The author of over 30 volumes of poetry, Merwin was published in Poetry magazine over his entire career. Though Merwin won virtually every award available to an American poet and served as U.S. …

May 29, 2024 · With over 2,740 individual palm trees, featuring more than 400 taxonomic species and 125 unique genera, with nearly 900 different horticultural varieties, W.S. Merwin’s garden is …

In 1929 the world lost a great humanitarian, Judge Henry C. Merwin, founder of the Boston Work Horse Relief Association. His death inspired his friends to create the clinic as a living memorial.