Author: W. S. Merwin

Cited by

• T.C Boyle (1)
  • IN: Water Music (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Listen natives of a dry place from the harpist's fingers rain
    FROM: The Old Boast, (1973), Poem, US
• Lydia Millet (1)
  • IN: Pills and Starships (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing ... When you will not see again The whale calves trying the light Consider what you will find in the black garden And its court The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless And fore-ordaining as stars Our sacrifices Join your word to theirs Tell him That it is we who are important
    FROM: For a Coming Extinction, (1967), Poem, US
• Laura Lippman (1)
  • IN: Butcher's Hill (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When years without number like days of another summer had turned into air there once more was a street that had never forgotten the eyes of its child
    FROM: "Another Place", (1990), Poem, US
• Denis Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Stars at Noon (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: . . what we are looking for In each other Is each other, The stars at noon, While the light worships its blind god.
    FROM: The Present, (1963), Poem, US
• Nancy Kress (1)
  • IN: Nothing Human (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some alien blessing is on its way to us.
    FROM: Midnight in Early Spring, (1970), Poem, US