EARLY JANUARY A year has come to us as though out of hiding It has arrived from an unknown distance From beyond the visions of the old Everyone waited for it by the wrong roads And it is hard for us now to be sure it is here A stranger to nothing In our hiding […] 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
“Foghorn” by W.S. Merwin
FOGHORN Surely that moan is not the thing That men thought they were making, when they Put it there, for their own necessities. That throat does not call to anything human But to something men had forgotten, That stirs under fog. Who wounded that beast Incurably, or from whose pasture Was it lost, full grown, […] Read More