It would be younger I suppose so I am olderĮxcept for the things I think I would do differently Now no one is looking I could choose my age I imagine all the clocks have died in the night Waking in fog and rain and seeing nothing Though I have long wondered what it would be like It sounds unconvincing to say When I was young When you look back there is always the past And so the poems kind of pushed their way upon me when I wasn’t thinking of writing.” I thought the future was so bleak that there was no point in writing anything at all. “Most of The Lice was written at a point that I felt there was really no point in writing. In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 19 the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005,and the Tanning Prize-one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets-as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. William Stanley Merwin (Septem– March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation.During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. William Stanley Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.

The Consecration by Jesse Merwin