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about him. "You know Mr. Kreymborg?" he said. "And you have met
Mrs.
Kreymborg?" He told me they had a lovely house in the country
("Grantwood," my boy) and that he had visited them. I told him I thought
them lovely. He said, "You select from those what you like and you will
accept them from me." (mushrooms, some of his own things, etc.)
I
said,
"I
don't wish you to let me make you poor, Mr. Bruno.
I
should like to pay
you for them." He wouldn't let me. He called his stenographer and told her
to bring me
2
tickets for the Thimble Theatre performance that night and
gave me
2
for the Kreymborgs in case
I
should see them.
I
had said
I
was
going there. "And the five last copies of the
Weekly"
he said. The most
obsequious girl
I
have ever seen got the
Weeklies
from a file and procured
the tickets.
I
told Alfred about it afterwards and he said, "Oh he is
power–
ful."
A
messenger boy came in to say he couldn't find an address and Mr.
Bruno said "You
must
find it-go again-you will
have
to find it."
As
I
was
leaving he said
"I
am very stupid but fot haf you done?"
I
told him about
The Egoist
and he said Mr. Aldington wrote to him every week or some–
thing as foolish. He urged me to write for the
Weekly
and said he would pay
me "not much but something."
w.
love,
Winks
companion
of W. S. Merwin, H.
L.
Hix sur–
veys the Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet's canon to show that despite
its reputation for difficulty and
obscurity, Merwin's verse is clear
and direct. Describing Merwin as
a moral poet, Hix identifies the
characteristics that distinguish
Merwin's voice and suggests that
an underlying vision of human
interconnectedness and affinity
with nature permeates his poetry.
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