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...MERWIN--PULITZER PRIZE-winning poet and author of over 30 books--is standing on Dunster Street talking about garden equipment. A window display for a Harvard Real Estate office, decorated with potted plants, has caught...
...Merwin, who lives in Haiku, Hawaii, devotes much of his time to gardening. "Every day, at about four o'clock, I go out and work outdoors till dark, and that's a wonderful part of the day..."He smiles, exposing gaps in the teeth...
...still aren't talking about poetry. Instead, Merwin is reading aloud from a book given to him by a man at Au Bon Pain. The book has a king, a queen, and a character named Tumur. Merwin never mentions the title...
Twenty minutes later, we are sitting in Winthrop Park, and the talk turns to poetry. Merwin speaks with the humility of a reader, rather than the assertiveness of an acclaimed writer...
...tendency to "think too much about it" is the chief "danger of a good education." Merwin looks suddenly paternal. "But that's not a reason you shouldn't have...