A fresh and compact selection of Merrill's lifetime of work, highlighting the most significant poems for classroom use and the general readership.
This volume brings together the best of Merrill-and dazzles at every turn. This balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to his work for both students and general readers, and an instant favorite among his familiars.
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.
Includes poems from the domestic rupture of ""The Broken Home"" to the universal connections of ""Lost in Translation""; from the American storyteller of ""The Summer People"" to the ecologically motivated satirist of ""Self-Portrait in a TyvekTM Windbreaker.""
Log Then when the flame forked like a sudden path I gasped and stumbled, and was less. Density pulsing upward, gauze of ash, Dear light along the way to nothingness, What could be made of you but light, and this?
By:
James Merrill
Edited by:
J. D. McClatchy,
Stephen Yenser
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 181mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9780375711664
ISBN 10: 037571166X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 January 2009
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction From First Poems, 1951 The Black Swan The House From The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, 1959 The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace The Lovers A Renewal Upon a Second Marriage The Charioteer of Delphi Mirror Marsyas The Doodler Voices From the Other World In the Hall of Mirrors A Dedication From Water Street, 1962 An Urban Convalescence After Greece For Proust Scenes of Childhood Angel Swimming by Night A Tenancy From Nights and Days, 1966 Nightgown The Thousand and Second Night Time Charles on Fire The Broken Home The Current The Mad Scene From The Cupola Days of 1964 From The Fire Screen, 1969 Lorelei The Friend of the Fourth Decade Words for Maria To My Greek Last Words Another August Mornings in a New House Matinées The Summer People From Braving the Elements, 1972 Log After the Fire Days of 1935 18 West 11th Street Willowware Cup From Up and Down Flèche d’or Days of 1971 The Victor Dog Syrinx From Divine Comedies, 1976 The Kimono Lost in Translation Chimes for Yahya Yánnina Verse for Urania The Will From The Changing Light at Sandover, 1982 From The Book of Ephraim From Scripts for the Pageant From Late Settings, 1985 Grass The Pier: Under Pisces The School Play Page From the Koran Santo Bronze Channel 13 Paul Valéry: Palme After the Ball From The Inner Room, 1988 Little Fallacy Arabian Night The Parnassians Ginger Beef Dead Center Losing the Marbles Investiture at Cecconi’s Farewell Performance Processional From A Scattering of Salts, 1995 A Downward Look Nine Lives Snow Jobs The Instilling My Father’s Irish Setters Vol. XLIV, No. 3 b o d y Pledge Family Week at Oracle Ranch Overdue Pilgrimage to Nova Scotia Self-Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker An Upward Look From Collected Poems, 2001 After Cavafy Oranges In the Pink Rhapsody on Czech Themes Christmas Tree Koi Days of 1994 Notes Short Chronology Suggestions for Further Reading
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.
