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  <title>The Shadow of Sirius</title>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been on a huge Merwin kick lately, and wondering why I overlooked him for so long.  This was a great choice for which book of his to read, since it just won the Pulitzer in poetry.  (I'm blaming that for the fact that there's an actual waiting list at the library for it; and the general nerdiness of Boston.)  I really enjoyed paying attention to how it was organized, the different sections, and then how in the last one all the poems that mentioned months or seasons were in chronological order.  Plus it has the same thoughtful older-poet tone as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/854076.Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Jack Gilbert</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/85722.Franz_Wright" title="Franz Wright">Franz Wright</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1711.Thomas_Merton" title="Thomas Merton">Czeslaw Milosz</a>.<br/><br/>Though it's not in this book, here's my favorite Merwin poem ever: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://april-is.tumblr.com/post/87920598/april-2-2008-a-birthday-w-s-merwin" title="http://april-is.tumblr.com/post/87920598/april-2-2008-a-birthday-w-s-merwin">http://april-is.tumblr.com/post/87920598...</a>]]></body>
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