| LC control no. | n 50036920 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3563.E75 |
| Personal name heading | Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Merwin, William S., 1927- Merwin, William Stanley, 1927-2019 |
| Biography/History note | W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Hawaii |
| Birth date | 1927-09-30 |
| Death date | 2019-03-15 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Haiku-Pauwela (Hawaii) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets laureate Poets Translators |
| Found in | His A mask for Janus, 1952. Davis, C. W. S. Merwin, 1981: CIP galley (William Stanley Merwin) Wikipedia, 5 September 2012 (W.S. Merwin; William Stanley Merwin (born September 30, 1927, New York City) is an American poet) Garden time, 2016: title page (W.S. Merwin) page 71 (In 2010, Merwin was appointed the Library of Congress's seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. He currently lives and works in Hawaii) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 18, 2019 (in obituary published Mar. 15: W.S. Merwin; b. William Stanley Merwin, Sept. 30, 1927, New York City; d. Friday [Mar. 15, 2019], at his home near Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, aged 91; formidable poet who for more than 60 years labored under a formidable poetic yoke: the imperative of using language--an inescapably concrete presence on the printed page--to conjure absence, silence, and nothingness; United States poet laureate from 2010 to 2011) |
| Associated language | eng |
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