Friday, January 21, 2011
A Conversation with Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin from The Kenyon Review on Vimeo.
Tonight, whilst working on a poem, I had a notion to re-read a poem in W.S. Merwin's collection The Shadow of Sirius called 'Rain Light'. It's a powerful and beautiful poem. I bought the collection on the basis of it when I read it in the New Yorker. By some weird coincidence I happened to come across this conversation with Merwin, at the very start of the interview he reads this very poem. What a delight to hear him read it!
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3 comments:
Much enjoyed that poem. Thanks.
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A powerful synchronicity. A magnetism in the fabric of fate.
it's good isn't it, weirdly enough I'd even forgotten it was about his mother.
or maybe just a coincidence? lol :)
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