“W. S. Merwin won his second Pulitzer Prize for poetry on Monday for “The Shadow of Sirius,” a collection that the Pulitzer board described in its citation as “luminous” and “often tender” — and that Merwin called a happy accident.”
“He said that he always looked to be taken by surprise — ’surprise that it happens at all and surprise that it works and that it’s complete.’”
From The New York Times. Read the entire article here.
