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Congratulations to W.S. Merwin, Poet Laureate of the United States
On July 1, 2010, the Library of Congress appointed W.S. Merwin Poet Laureate. Copper Canyon Press is honored to publish his poetry, prose, and translations, including his most recent volume of poems, The Shadow of Sirius, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Please join us in congratulating W.S. Merwin. http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/
(Link provides individual congratulations along with a personal note.)
Bread
by W. S. Merwin
for Wendell Berry
Each face in the street is a slice of bread wandering on searchingsomewhere in the light the true hunger appears to be passing them by they clutch
have they forgotten the pale caves they dreamed of hiding in their own caves full of the waiting of their footprints hung with the hollow marks of their groping full of their sleep and their hiding
have they forgotten the ragged tunnels they dreamed of following in out of the light to hear step after step
the heart of bread to be sustained by its dark breath and emerge
to find themselves alone before a wheat field raising its radiance to the moon
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