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Article: Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
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- January 1, 2006
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Dear Editor,
As editor at Copper Canyon Press I must respond to your review of W.S. Merwin's Migration ["Iron Man," November 2005].
I find it particularly frustrating that your reviewer would bemoan anyone's attempt to make a life of poetry by actually writing it. W.S. Merwin is one of the very few writers who has managed to make his living as a poet. Heaven forbid he should be so crass as to actually publish books filled with his labors. In likening Merwin to a "Depression-era kid" who hoards cans of beans, I'll grant that the reviewer is partially right. Save a few august institutions, the poetry world is economically lacking, and within this world ...