World & Nation
A leader of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People named four officers Friday that he says were involved in last week’s videotaped beating of a black suspect, and he threatened to name 18 more if officials don’t do it first.
July 22, 2000
California
The scene at the trendy dance-and-exercise studio on Santa Monica’s Main Street starts out typically enough: Young upwardly mobile types in designer leotards bump and grind to loud rock music.
Sept. 25, 1988
Books
A W.S. Merwin timeline
Aug. 29, 2010
Amid a months-long lull in gang warfare, faint signs of economic life emerge. But in the luckless island nation, expectations are low.
June 26, 2006
At 73, poet W.S. Merwin continues to find new ways to shape the language.
May 30, 2001
Entertainment & Arts
The Pulitzer winner brings a strong environmental viewpoint to his new post.
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July 1, 2010
W.S. Merwin brings a strong eco-view as the next U.S. poet laureate.
While Keats wrote they were cutting down the sandalwood forests while he listened to the nightingale they heard their own axes echoing through the forests while he sat in the walled garden on the hill outside the city they thought of their gardens dying far away on the mountain while the sound of the words clawed at him they thought of their wives while the tip of his pen travelled the iron they had coveted was hateful to them while he thought of the Grecian woods they bled under red flowers while he dreamed of wine the trees were falling from the trees while he felt his heart they were hungry and their faith was sick while the song broke over him they were in a secret place and they were cutting it forever while he coughed they carried the trunks to the hole in the forest the size of a foreign ship while he groaned on the voyage to Italy they fell on the trails and were broken when he lay with the odes behind him the wood was sold for cannons when he lay watching the window they came home and lay down and an age arrived when everything was explained in another language --From “Chord” by W.
June 12, 1988
W.S.
March 15, 2019