W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (died 2019)

W. S. Merwin

American poet (1927–2019)

William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and…