William Stanley Merwin
Sunyab Poetry Reading 12 / 9 / 1969
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where his love of nature and interest in man’s relationship to the environment developed. Environmentalism, Buddhism and a fierce anti-war stance fuelled much of his poetry, which has won him acclaim since the 1950s and 1960s. After having attended Princeton University, Merwin and his then wife …