The Asians Dying

Poem Details

Original Publication Year:
1967
Poet:
W. S. Merwin
Poetic Form:
Free verse

Poems that Share Poetic Form

  1. To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals
  2. at the cemetery,/ walnut grove plantation, south carolina,
  3. Seduced by Natassja Kinski
  4. On Seeing Larry River's Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
  5. Frederico's Ghost
  6. 1072 (Title divine——is mine!)
  7. The Fish
  8. Daddy
  9. Lady Lazarus
  10. The Man-Moth
  11. At the Fishhouses
  12. Filling Station
  13. Thinking of James Dean
  14. Diving into the Wreck
  15. "They Dream Only of America"
  16. Twenty-One Love Poems
  17. Syringa
  18. Hope Atherton's Wanderings
  19. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
  20. Crusoe in England
  21. Questions of Travel
  22. The Problem of Anxiety
  23. Home Burial
  24. In the Waiting Room
  25. Words to that Effect
  26. Memories of West Street and Lepke
  27. Paradoxes and Oxymorons
  28. Skunk Hour
  29. Caesar
  30. Epilogue
  31. For the Anniversary of My Death
  32. Middle Passage
  33. For A Coming Extinction
  34. Runagate Runagate
  35. Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise
  36. To the Diaspora
  37. The Horse
  38. A Step Away From Them
  39. Sun And Rain
  40. The Day Lady Died
  41. Berryman
  42. Why I Am Not a Painter
  43. Worn Words
  44. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
  45. Trying to Talk With a Man
  46. The Native American Broadcasting System
  47. Black Art
  48. Southern Mansion
  49. at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
  50. Evolution
  51. When We'll Worship Jesus
  52. A Communication to Nancy Cunard
  53. reply
  54. Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians
  55. Black Dada Nihilismus
  56. A Song in the Front Yard
  57. the message of crazy horse
  58. Tourists
  59. In the Tradition
  60. The Blackstone Rangers
  61. poem to my uterus
  62. Corsons Inlet
  63. Beaufort Tides
  64. Young Afrikans
  65. Gravelly Run
  66. Report to the Stockholders
  67. The Boy Died in My Alley
  68. Coon Song
  69. Street Lamps in Early Spring
  70. To Those of My Sisters Who Keep Their Naturals
  71. Mixed Feelings
  72. You
  73. Poema Para Los Californios Muertos
  74. Street Musicians
  75. The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree
  76. Starfish
  77. Dull Mauve
  78. The Riddle of the Fat Faced Man
  79. Southern Road
  80. A Kind of Chill
  81. At the Crossroad
  82. Seduced by Natassja Kinski
  83. Spooks Run Wild
  84. At the Well
  85. Hummingbird Heart
  86. Marine Shadow
  87. Counting Small-Boned Bodies
  88. How I Got That Name
  89. Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro
  90. The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach
  91. Altar
  92. The Painters
  93. Cassandra
  94. Little Clown, My Heart
  95. Indian Boy Love (#2)
  96. SOS
  97. The Dragonfly
  98. I Am Accused of Tending To the Past
  99. Oread
  100. To my wash-stand
  101. Mid-Day
  102. Mantis
  103. Sea Rose
  104. The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  105. Garden
  106. Musée des Beaux Arts
  107. The Helmsman
  108. In Memory of W. B. Yeats
  109. Eurydice
  110. September 1, 1939
  111. The Walls Do Not Fall
  112. Marriage (Gregory Corso)
  113. Shooting Script
  114. I Am New York City
  115. Bully
  116. Porphyro in Akron
  117. The Lover of the Subversive is also a Subversive
  118. Voyages I
  119. Federico's Ghost
  120. The River
  121. to my last period
  122. The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp
  123. Cape Hatteras
  124. brothers
  125. Fidel in Ohio
  126. The Mango Tree
  127. Marriage
  128. The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango
  129. After Lorca
  130. Bomb
  131. Imagine The Angels Of Bread
  132. The Flower
  133. The Pool
  134. On Seeing Larry River's Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
  135. Up Rising (Passages 25)
  136. Love Poem on Theme By Whitman
  137. My Mother Would Be a Falconress
  138. Wichita Vortex Sutra
  139. Return of the Wolves
  140. I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body
  141. La Morena and her Beehive Hairdo
  142. Carol
  143. Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
  144. Tenebris
  145. Dear John Wayne
  146. A Mona Lisa
  147. The Fence
  148. Fragment
  149. Tattoo
  150. A Canticle to the Waterbirds
  151. Ming the Merciless
  152. Parsley
  153. Dirge
  154. Brother John
  155. The Sheep Child
  156. Denouement
  157. Dear John, Dear Coltrane
  158. Falling
  159. The Museum of Stones
  160. Rusia en 1931
  161. Son of Msippi
  162. We're Caffeinated by Rain inside Concrete Underpasses
  163. Black Star Line
  164. You'll be fucked up
  165. #1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!")
  166. Life Magazine, December, 1941
  167. Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
  168. The Man at the Factory Guide
  169. The Torso (Passages 18)
  170. Howl