W. S. Merwin

Poet W. S. Merwin makes a rare New York appearance, returning to 92Y’s Poetry Center upon the publication of his Collected Poems by the Library of America. “The intentions of Merwin’s poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper. He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth and the underground,” wrote The Atlantic Monthly.