Thursday, May 02, 2019

Q&A …

… W.S. Merwin: At Home in the Garden of the Unknown | Hawaii Public Radio. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Today … we hear from the late W.S. Merwin, award winning U.S. Poet Laureate. He spent his last three decades cultivating a palm garden at his home in Peahi, Maui.  His narrative, The Folding Cliffs, combines western epic poetry with Hawaiian chant.  In 2008, HPR’s Noe Tanigawa talked with Merwin about achieving that synthesis.

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