A poem by W. S. Merwin, published in The Atlantic in 2002
A poem by W. S. Merwin, published in The Atlantic in 1999
The 82-year old poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner has just been named U.S. Poet Laureate. Hear him read his work aloud.
Hear the author read his poem, first published in the February 1995 'Atlantic'
Georg Everard Rumpf (1628?-1702), great Dutch naturalist, who lived most of his life in the East Indies, and there wrote all his works and lost the sight of his eyes