(b. 1927– )
U.S. poet
W. S. Merwin
Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written.
“The Unwritten,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 250–51.
What I’m really interested in is not what I’ve written but what I haven’t written, the next poem, if there is one.
“A Conversation with W. S. Merwin,” Artful Dodge, 1982.