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Rita Dove and W.S. Merwin: A Gift for Language

What It Takes® - December 03, 2018 08:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
Two of America's greatest poets - both former Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners - get to the heart of why poems speak to us when other forms of language fail. They also share stories about the people who inspired them to make a life in literature. And they read some great poems, of cours...
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Books written by W.S. Merwin

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

70 pages - ★★★★ - 35.4K ratings

Good Poems for Hard Times
Garrison Keillor, Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noël Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy, Jim Harrison, W.H. Auden, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Ignatow, John Keats, X.J. Kennedy, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Kate Light, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis MacNeice, Hilaire Belloc, Herman Melville, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Howard Nemerov, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Grace Paley, Lawrence Raab, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Carl Sandburg, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Philip Booth, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Liesl Mueller

344 pages - ★★★★ - 2.61K ratings

Blood Wedding and Yerma
Federico García Lorca, W.S. Merwin, Langston Hughes

160 pages - ★★★★ - 842 ratings