Article: The River Sound.(Review)

Article: Merwin hears the immortality of echo
The Boston Globe;  January 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The River Sound Poems By W.S. Merwin. Knopf. 142 ... else's. "The River Sound" contains 46 ... astonishing gathering of Merwin's work -- that ... of his life. Merwin's intentions ... Proustian. In "The River Sound" his memorial ...

Article: Poet W.S. Merwin to speak at Yale.
M2 Presswire;  April 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... living in Boston in the 1950s. Merwin's recent poetry is perhaps ... pacifist and environmentalist. Merwin's first published volume ... include the collection "The River Sound," as well as a new translation ... essays expressing the breadth of Merwin's fascination with the natural ...

Article: W. S. Merwin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      480 words ... ... Merwin (William Stanley Merwin), 1927-, American poet ... Summer Doorways (2005). Merwin is noted for his restrained ... Travels (1993), The River Sound (1999), The Pupil (2002), and Migration (2005). Merwin is also well known for his ...

Encyclopedia entry: Merwin, W(illiam) S(tanley)
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      535 words ...Merwin, W[illiam] S[tanley] (1927– ),New York&x2010 ... x2013;1983 (1997), The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (1998), and The River Sound (1999). The volumes The Miner's Pale Children (1970), Houses and ...

Article: Merwin says poetry is all about listening
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... according to celebrated poet W.S. Merwin, who will speak and read from his work ... listen for something only you can hear," Merwin said by phone from California. "It is ... a way you cannot describe." Because Merwin believes so strongly in the sound of poetry ...

Article: Writing outside the self: the disembodied narrators of W.S. ...
Style;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... topic to be found in the poetry of W. S. Merwin since the The Carrier of Ladders (1970 ... participation in nature that they desire, Merwin's narrators betray little or no personal ... burdens of the ego. In the vast majority of Merwin's poems, their actions remain part ...

Article: Loring Merwin continued the church's long history of ...
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  February 21, 2009 ;     648 words ...Loring Merwin, a fourth-generation descendant of Jesse ... several area communities including Normal. Merwin's record of civic accomplishment is true ... see his public legacy, just drive to the Merwin Nature Preserve, a 700-acre property ...