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Letters to W.S. (William Stanley) and Dido Merwin, 1958â1969
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1987: Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii
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Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel, Michael and Hal Crimmel (2015).
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Profile and poems of W. S. Merwin, including audio files
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1993: The Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004
1262:"Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets"
720:2010: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
1591:Open Letters Monthly, accessed November 25, 2010.
674:1994: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award
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1381:Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Elizabeth C. Clarage,
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400:won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.
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1041:Wutz, Michael; Crimmel, Hal (May 21, 2015).
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1524:"Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement"
1511:"The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners/Poetry"
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990:Smith, Dinitia (February 19, 1995).
713:2009: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for
407:, an ambitious novel-in-verse about
235:, which was renamed for him in 2006.
3156:Writers from Scranton, Pennsylvania
1387:Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners
1181:Kramer, Michael (October 8, 1998).
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3151:People from Union City, New Jersey
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892:Cohen, Patricia (June 30, 2010).
723:2010: United States Poet Laureate
697:Migration: New and Selected Poems
573:1961: Rabinowitz Foundation Grant
398:Migration: New and Selected Poems
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1565:W. S. Merwin: Online Resources
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693:National Book Award for Poetry
468:Merwin's last book of poetry,
191:National Book Award for Poetry
174:. Residing in a rural part of
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1289:W.S. Merwin papers (Merwin 1)
1163:"National Book Awards â 2005"
782:"Amazon.com Official Profile"
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569:Arts Council of Great Britain
567:1957: Playwrighting Bursary,
299:; he became poetry editor at
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216:Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
1684:W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree
666:Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
657:Maurice English Poetry Award
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3161:Princeton University alumni
3141:National Book Award winners
1628:W. S. Merwin â Online Poems
1076:"Today's poem is "asunder""
432:United States Poet Laureate
405:Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
207:United States Poet Laureate
158:and produced many works in
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1642:"The Emptiness at the End"
1630:, Modern American Poetry,
1437:. Routledge. p. 383.
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644:Bollingen Prize for Poetry
497:The Essential W. S. Merwin
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109:Poetry, prose, translation
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748:W. S. Merwin bibliography
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620:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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1431:Routledge Staff (2003).
1236:"The Merwin Conservancy"
1169:. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
1167:National Book Foundation
576:1962: Bess Hokin Prize,
537:Yale Younger Poets Prize
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379:The Drunk in the Furnace
297:Cambridge, Massachusetts
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3126:American Poets Laureate
2720:William Carlos Williams
2224:William Carlos Williams
1587:March 24, 2019, at the
1546:April 11, 2019, at the
952:The Union City Reporter
760:The Union City Reporter
648:Yale University Library
423:, was awarded the 2009
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392:Later career: 1977â2019
260:Early career: 1952â1976
3181:Translators to English
3131:American Presbyterians
1733:Struga Poetry Evenings
1678:Academy of Achievement
1658:The Merwin Conservancy
1647:magazine, October 2005
1621:Honolulu Star-Bulletin
1614:June 29, 2008, at the
1240:The Merwin Conservancy
638:Shelley Memorial Award
624:The Carrier of Ladders
613:Rockefeller Foundation
556:Rockefeller Fellowship
403:In 1998, Merwin wrote
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189:in 1971 and 2009; the
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3191:Poets from New Jersey
3146:The New Yorker people
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1745:Robert Rozhdestvensky
992:"A Poet of Their Own"
603:PEN Translation Prize
249:Presbyterian minister
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1793:Fazıl HĂŒsnĂŒ DaÄlarca
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970:English.illinois.edu
966:"About W. S. Merwin"
715:The Shadow of Sirius
551:Fellowship in Poetry
416:The Shadow of Sirius
266:Princeton University
127:Dorothy Jeanne Ferry
91:Princeton University
3206:American male poets
2568:Juan Felipe Herrera
2140:Library of Congress
2027:José Emilio Pacheco
1877:Desanka MaksimoviÄ
1569:Library of Congress
925:Donald Keene Center
864:The Washington Post
717:(published in 2008)
626:(published in 1971)
493:Copper Canyon Press
421:Copper Canyon Press
307:Lazarillo de Tormes
205:named him the 17th
203:Library of Congress
168:Buddhist philosophy
162:. During the 1960s
57:New York City, U.S.
3121:American pacifists
2690:Robert Penn Warren
2660:Archibald MacLeish
2392:Robert Penn Warren
2312:Josephine Jacobsen
2168:Robert Penn Warren
2093:Jean-Pierre Siméon
1949:Edoardo Sanguineti
1889:Justo Jorge PadrĂłn
1853:Andrei Voznesensky
1267:The New York Times
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1967:Tomas Tranströmer
1871:Tadeusz RĂłĆŒewicz
1731:Laureates of the
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