James Merrill: Selected Poems
$32.00
- Paperback
298 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2009
Summary
James Merrill himself once called his body of work "chronicles of love and loss," and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life—comic and haunting, exotic and domestic—to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. This volume rings together the best of Merrill—from the domestic rupture of "The Broken Home" to the universal connections of "Lost in Tr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375711664 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037571166X |
| Author: | James Merrill |
| Publisher: | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Random House US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 298 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 177mm x 231mm |
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About The Author
James Merrill
James Merrill (1926-1995) wrote twelve books of poems, as well as the epic The Changing Light at Sandover. He published two plays, two novels, and a memoir, A Different Person. The recipient of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, Merrill was also a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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