Fabulous Merwin stories, Millicent. Thanks. Maybe he wanted to give you a
$10,000 leg-up as an aspiring poet!
Bill
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 12:06 pm, Millicent Borges Accardi <
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> Hi
> I have a bunch of stories about Merwin. I'll share two here.
> 1) when I was in college, a group of friends and I had limited budgets, so
> we met for breakfast (which was vastly cheaper than dinner). And we would
> read poetry. This one time someone brought Merwin's collected poems (the
> one with his photo on the large cover), so we propped it up and joked
> around that we were having Breakfast with Merwin! It became a 'thing" so
> once a week we would breakfast with Merwin. During that time, Merwin gave a
> reading in Laguna Beach, so I went to see him and there was a book
> give-away and I won! so I got to go onstage and get a signed copy of the
> collected poems book, which Merwin signed. I told him the story and he
> invited me out to dinner with his hosts and some local writers--we ended up
> hanging out for hours and we exchanged addresses. For many years, I would
> get a letter from Merwin maybe? once a year or once every other year?
> 2) in one of the letters, he had included a check (from a publisher that
> he had signed over to cash it was for around $10,000). I was flustered
> and didn't want to insult him but I think he had gotten confused and sent
> me the check by mistake so I returned it and said I think he had enclosed
> it by mistake. He thanked me profusely, saying how kind and honest I was
> --
> Even though I was barely an acquaintance. I felt honored to have at least
> interacted with him, in small ways.
> Millicent
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Another poet bites the dust
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> https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/w-s-merwin-in-the-new-yorker
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> New to me. Interesting, not least for his anticipation of the smart phone
> in 1969.
>
> Bill
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