[New-Poetry] Merwin at 80

[Anny Ballardini]

Yes, I agree with you Bob, that is the way you are. Courage, in about 50 something years you'll be about 60, not too bad. You still have 20 years to be 27, see Merwin.
  From: Bob Grumman 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:44 PM


  My problem is that two people share my interior, one twelve, the other 120.

  --Bob

  Anny Ballardini wrote: 
    I am therefore right when I say that I still have to decide what I will do when I grow up, you see, I knew it!
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      From: jforjames at aol.com 
      To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
      Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:02 PM
      Subject: [New-Poetry] Merwin at 80


      http://www.metroactive.com/metro/11.21.07/arts-0747.html
      Translator and poet W.S. Merwin muses on the importance of nothing
      By Gretchen Giles

      ON A SUNNY Saturday afternoon in October, two weeks after his 80th birthday, the poet W.S. Merwin calmly announces that he's just 27—on the inside. Wearing a jaunty hat given to him by the novelist Frank McCourt and dressed in cashmere against the chill that an evening's birthday celebration in wine country promises, Merwin cuts a handsome figure for any age. 

      Settling into a chair in the library of literary agent Steven Barclay's comfortable home, Merwin says, "Actually, I think that I started realizing that I was me when I was about 3." But the strength of a man at 27—the keenness, the curiosity, the intellect, the mastery—are clearly evident even as Merwin embarks on his ninth decade. 

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