[New-Poetry] Merwin at 80

[Anny Ballardini]

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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  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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