W. S. Merwin

Anna, the writer's mother, is living alone in a large house in Western Pennsylvania after the death of her husband, a minister. The writer stays with …

The narrator frequents a riverside park bounded by an expressway. Across the river are factories, gas tanks and wharves. In midwinter, the narrator stands …

Things that you lost were guiding you. And you tried to replace them only sometimes you lost the replacements too even though you had grown to like the …

Story in 3 parts. 1. "The Locker Room". The narrator's country is at war. He is a member of a group of aging men, called to the locker room, presumably…

"The human memory is a wonderful development but its fallibility is infinite." This drove man to construct repositories for his archives, but the …