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Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780689112836
Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
Author : James Merrill
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065240
An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0525659285
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill’s recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill’s Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson—the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call “scribe”) and DJ (“hand”) are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B (“God Biology”), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair’s gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, and utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer’s role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill’s tale of the joys and tragedies of man’s powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0525520244
For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.
Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142000450
Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.
Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375413332
"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : English poetry
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Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
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This dazzling epic poem remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years starting in 1976.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 110187550X
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: "the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art"; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: "It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed"; on romance in his late fifties: "I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away"; on great books: "they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens." Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail—a natural extension of the great poet's voice.