W. S. Merwin, author of Migration: New and Selected Poems, is the winner of the 2005 National Book Award for poetry. Merwin is a poet's poet -- he lives and writes in Hawaii and is not affiliated with any college or university -- just writes! When I worked at the downtown public library I stumbled onto a collection of his poems, Finding the Islands; a collection of three stanza poems like the following excerpt from the poem "At Home":
As the ants know
where the honey is
I know the way to you
____
where we live
we look far out to sea
and our clothes are behind us in the bedroom
His poetry is beautiful and evocative.
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