AT THE SAME TIME While we talk thousands of languages are listening saying nothing while we close a door flocks of birds are flying through winters of endless light while we sign our names more of us lets go and will never answer – W.S. Merwin, published in Poetry (December 1970) To browse through our […] Read More
“A Step at a Time” by W.S. Merwin
A STEP AT A TIME Now one eye daylight and one not there was a lifetime before they flew their true colors but I must have known the moment I was born the pans of the balance swinging along with me always two poles with the seasons rocking between them and the familiar the unexplored […] Read More
Next in The Green Room: Authors and Thought Leaders Lewis Hyde and Matthew Zapruder on December 5th and 6th
The Merwin Conservancy Welcomes MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde & Poet Matthew Zapruder to Hawai‘i for two Appearances in The Green Room “Lewis Hyde is one of our true superstars of nonfiction.” – David Foster Wallace “Matthew Zapruder has a “razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.” – Dana Jennings, The New York Times […] Read More
