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Free Article 2005 National Book Award.(Saluting)(W.S. Merwin)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 3/22/2006
Free Article Writing outside the self: the disembodied narrators of W.S. Merwin.(Rhetoric and Poetics)
Magazine article from: Style; 6/22/1996
Free Article Honor wagered.(W.S. Merwin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2002

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2005 National Book Award.(Saluting)(W.S. Merwin)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 3/22/2006; 48 words ; Tree lover and Pulitzer-prize winning poet W.S. Merwin, who won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry for Migration: New and Selected Poems. Merwin was profiled as an Earthkeeper in the Winter 2005 issue... Read more
Writing outside the self: the disembodied narrators of W.S. Merwin.(Rhetoric and Poetics)
Magazine article from: Style; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...topic to be found in the poetry of W. S. Merwin since the The Carrier of Ladders...participation in nature that they desire, Merwin's narrators betray little or no personal...the ego. In the vast majority of Merwin's poems, their actions remain part... Read more
Honor wagered.(W.S. Merwin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; W.S. Merwin Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...translation of it by the poet W. S. Merwin, and just published by Knopf...Yorker who attended Princeton, Merwin was the tutor to the son of Robert Graves. In 1952, W. H. Auden identified him as... Read more
Hon W D Smith Pres Bd of Health Honolulu. (untitled poem)(excerpt from 'The Folding Cliffs')
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 6/22/1998; ; 409 words ; Hon W D Smith Pres Bd of Health Honolulu Sir in accordance with your...Two weeks later after Stolz's own visit he wrote again to Hon W D Smith now Attorney General Dear Sir in accordance with your...vanished into the tangle of ravines up at the foot of the cliffs W.S. Merwin has published 14 books of ... Read more
Sixguns more or less? S&W's new 'sevenguns'.
Magazine article from: American Handgunner; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...little engraved, ivory-gripped, Merwin & Hulbert .38 caliber revolver...amp; Wesson unpacked a S&W Model 620.357 Magnum and handed...is the new medium frame S&W .357 Magnums will weigh about...cylinder. My opinion is S&W was able to keep these weights... Read more
Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...I must respond to your review of W.S. Merwin's Migration [ Iron Man, November...of poetry by actually writing it. W.S. Merwin is one of the very few writers who...much success. To say it simply, W.S. Merwin is a professional poet whose work... Read more
Iron Man.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Migration: New and Selected Poems, by W.S. Merwin. Copper Canyon Press. $40.00. W.S. Merwin's legacy is unquestionably secure: his best...translations and half-a-dozen books of prose, W.S. Merwin is not only the most prolific American poet... Read more
Migration: New and Selected Poems.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Harvard Review; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2005, $40 cloth, ISBN 1556592183. Although W.S. Merwin has been a fixture on the literary...more emphatically The Lice (1967), Merwin dropped stateliness in favor of... Read more
The River Sound.(Review)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The River Sound, by W. S. Merwin. Alfred A. Knopf. $23.00. What evidence...spaces, rivulets it has been before? W. S. Merwin has never answered such questions...a tribute to their unanswerability. Merwin's ongoing fascination with the ambiguities... Read more
Voices.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 9/22/2003; ; 329 words ; Voices by Antonio Porchia, tr. W. S. Merwin. Copper Canyon, 129 pp., $14.00...mysterious masterpiece, of which W. S. Merwin has provided a sensitive and accurate...revised and enlarged edition of Merwin's translations from 1988. * John... Read more

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