Thanks by W.S. Merwin - Poem for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year A

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)

This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Thanks
W.S. Merwin

SNIPPET:

…
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you
…

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W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009; the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, and the Tanning Prize — one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets. In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th U.S. Poet Laureate. (via Wikipedia)