[lit-ideas] Re: Happy Birthday to W. S. Merwin

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:15:43 +0900

Lovely,

John


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Merwin was born in New York, on September 30, 1927. Here's a poem.
>
> Worn Words
>
> The late poems are the ones
> I turn to first now
> following a hope that keeps
> beckoning me
> waiting somewhere in the lines
> almost in plain sight
> it is the late poems
> that are made of words
> that have come the whole way
> they have been there
>
>
> —W.S. Merwin, 2009
>
> ——————————————————
>
> Robert Paul
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