W. S. MERWIN was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union
City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951
he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and over the
course of his life, he lived in many parts of the world.
He was the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Governor's Award for
Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in
the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award,
and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He died in 2019.
"One of the greatest poets of our age. He is a rare spiritual
presence in American life and letters (the Thoreau of our era).”
—Edward Hirsch
"Merwin has always been a contemplative poet, drawn to the lessons
of the natural world and the rigors of unmediated vision. He has
also been a romantic poet, heroic in his quest for the depths and
intensities, the powers and possibilities of consciousness. Best of
all, he has been a surprising poet, continually slipping the bonds
of anyone's easy admiration." —The New Yorker
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