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James Merrill
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan (1946) ... [... more]
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Collected Poems
Treasure Chest: James Merrill was the greatest American poet of his generation, and while he was alive, one of the most important poets writing in English. This collection presents just about every poem that Merrill finished, apart from the long poem, * [... more]
CDN$41.95
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Rooms Are Never Finished Poems
hypnotic by page three...: the lines are drawn on the page so vividly, each word tells a story. i wish to god that he would have had more time. another book will follow this in 2003 (poets & writers magazine), and then...silence. grab the chance to [... more]
CDN$17.50
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The Son of Laughter
From Amazon.com: "The Bible's account of Jacob is a pungent seed found in a tomb," wrote the poet James Merrill about this novel. "Frederick Buechner has planted it and the result is this beautiful swaying tree of a book." The fact [... more]
CDN$19.00
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Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
Far more than a collection of elegies: LOSS WITHIN LOSS is a most appropriately titled reminiscence of the black hole AIDS blasted in our art community. Edmund White, always the sensitive observor and writer of tender memoirs, takes on the role of Editor [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Omeros
From Amazon.com: Creating an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus seems a risky proposition for a modern poet, but Derek Walcott accomplishes the feat with stunning results in Omeros. The title, which is Homer's name in Greek, nods to the wandering and [... more]
CDN$17.50
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Familiar Spirits
From Amazon.com: Written with her characteristic grace, novelist Alison Lurie's memoir of her friendship with the poet James Merrill and his companion David Jackson offers more than reminiscences, though these are tender, frank, and perceptive. Lurie [... more]
CDN$19.00
Amazon CA |
Collected Prose
Author: James Merrill Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 818.548 EAN: 9780375411366 ISBN: 0375411364 Number Of Pages: 752 Publication Date: 2004-10-26 Release Date: 2004-10-26 [... more]
CDN$55.00
Amazon CA |
The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem
The Modern Epic: After checking out Divine Comedies at the library and reading a few chapters of The Book of Ephraim, I knew I was willing to read the entire epic of The Changing Light at Sandover. Nearly six months later, after having read and reread [... more]
CDN$38.00
Amazon CA |
Stephen Yenser
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 [... more]
Random House |
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Modern Epic: After checking out Divine Comedies at the library and reading a few chapters of The Book of Ephraim, I knew I was willing to read the entire epic of The Changing Light at Sandover. Nearly six months later, after having read and reread [... more]
CDN$55.00
Amazon CA |
Collected Poems
Treasure Chest: James Merrill was the greatest American poet of his generation, and while he was alive, one of the most important poets writing in English. This collection presents just about every poem that Merrill finished, apart from the long poem, * [... more]
CDN$60.00
Amazon CA |
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