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The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - 1994
Stern, Gerald | December 12, 1994 issue

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The author says that, what he find himself responding to over and over in the writer W.S. Merwin's book "Travels," is the unique combination of tenderness and knowledge-closeness, love, pity, coupled with cruel history, true narrative and accuracy. There is overwhelming courage in poems, the courage of finally facing one-self whole, intact and entire. The title Travels indicates continental and even cosmic movements, but he is fond of, and would like to call attention to, those poems that do not have great movement in them but are more in the way of meditations, particularly the ones on "otherworldly" plants and animals.

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TRAVELS (Book); MERWIN, W. S.; TENDERNESS (Psychology); COURAGE; LOVE; POETRY
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