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Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Rain Light - It's Always Going to Be Something Different Than the Last Time You Saw It

i especially love in new york the way the sky can look after a rainstorm. There's something almost theatrical and dramatic about it. And at the same time, there is a repetition of every night. I also was thinking about this poem because i only saw merwin read once, many years ago. How quiet the poem is, and yet this urgency and immediacy.

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