The poem avoids question marks not just because Merwin has eschewed all punctuation, but also because his questions are rhetorical. |
|
Merwin opts not to follow the terza rima strictly, or rather he rhymes so freely that he chooses not to speak of it. |
|
Now Merwin and Ulmer are apologizing like their political lives depend on it, which, of course, they do. |
|
The Merwin canon can be read as an elegy for canonicity, as a poetic investigation of extinction in which the language of elegy itself is one of the most endangered species. |
|