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JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995), one of the foremost American poets of the later twentieth century, was the winner of numerous awards for his work, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress. From The Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995) he published eleven volumes of poems, in addition to the trilogy comprising The Changing Light at Sandover. He also published two plays, two novels, a collection of essays and interviews, and a memoir. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. STEPHEN YENSER has written three books of criticism, among them The Consuming Myth- The Work of James Merrill, and three volumes of poems. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at UCLA and the coeditor with J. D. McClatchy of Merrill's Collected Poems,The Changing Light at Sandover, Collected Novels and Plays, and Collected Prose.
Fascinating . . . Expansive . . . A compelling appreciation, orientation, and grotto of unexpected facts. . . . Yenser has a light touch: he leaves space for readers to form their own ideas about the poem's concerns, digressions, and connections. [His] references both help one get one's bearings, and help make one aware of the poem's vivid 'tribute to the convergence of means and meaning' . . . An absorbing, lively contribution. --Calista McRae, The Kenyon Review
