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W.S. Merwin: A Feature
Four Poems An Interview by Ben George Sixteen Tributes Robert Wrigley, An Amplitude of Stars: On W.S. Merwin Jeffrey Greene, Read Seeds Not Twigs: A Tribute toWS. Merwin Betty Adcock, Surprised by Merwin: A Personal Appreciation James Richardson, On W.S. Merwin Judith Freeman, Everything Takes Me by Surprise Ed Skoog, "When you look at things in rows, how do you feel?": An Appreciation ofWS. Merwin Marilyn Krysl, Let There Be Praise Willis Barnstone, W.S. Merwin, Prince Christopher Buckley, Seen from Afterward Ann Fisher-Wirth, W.S. Merwin's The Folding C liffs Suzanne Paola, From the Pale Future Ted Marshall, "There is no loneliness Like theirs": Solitude and Otherness in Early Merwin Tony Hoagland, Tireless Traveler: My W.S. Merwin John Balaban, A Life in Letters Toi Derricotte, Two Poems for WS. Merwin R.T. Smith, Merwin's Arrows
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Fugue Fourth Annual Contest in Prose & Poetry Winners: Nonfiction- Judged by Rebecca McClanahan Iraj Isaac Rahmim, Memoirs of an Exile (l•t Prize) Rebecca McClanahan: "A moving account of a selfdescribed 'semi-Jewish, semi-Iranian, modern wannabe' and his search for a spiritual homeland. An ambitious exploration of culture, class, and religious identity, this essay is notable for its sensory and specific detail, its varied and imaginative structural movements, and especially its sense of urgent necessity."
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