Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

In "The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin", he is a poet of paradoxes. In a 60-year career, he has made astonishing poetry of the separation from nature one experiences even in its midst.