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November 24, 2016
 

Thanks

 
W. S. Merwin

About This Poem

 

“Thanks” was published in From Migration: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005). 

 

William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. His numerous collections of poetry include The Carrier of Ladders (Atheneum, 1970), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). He is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2010 to 2011. He lives in Hawaii. 

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Garden Time

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