The Lice- — Poems By W.s. Merwin Download Pdf

“When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself… but the lice, the lice with their many children, have survived on the dying.”

“Why do you need it?” Elias asked, his voice a rusty hinge. The Lice- Poems By W.S. Merwin Download Pdf

“Because Merwin believed that poetry should not be convenient,” Elias said. “He said that to read a poem about extinction, you should have to work. You should have to hunt. The ease of a PDF, he wrote in a letter, is a lie. It makes the catastrophe feel like a background refresh.” “When you consider the radiance, that it does