Saturday, November 08, 2025

W.S. Merwin--I was very fortunate to attend a reading by him at U Penn during the time of my poetry binge-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Merwin
Beautiful beautiful poet, par excellence.

I was just wondering how it must have felt for Aung Zeya (later King Alaunghpaya) as a boy growning up in the Kabaw Valley to experience a Manipuri raid and I found this.

It's all there, except the sounds, the mud, the dirt, the screams, the rapes--the fear, the tears, common to war. https://www.youtube.c...