Collected Poems - Hardcover

Merrill, James Ingram; McClatchy, J. D.; Yenser, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375411399 ISBN 13: 9780375411397

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2001

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Fifty years of the author's acclaimed poetry--with works ranging from his earliest anthology, The Black Swan and Other Poems, to the posthumous volume A Scattering of Salts--are collected into a single volume for the first time, celebrating a lifetime of verse by one of the twentieth century's literary masters. 10,000 first printing.

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James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950's on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. FromThe Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well asThe Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) andThe Bait (1860); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued in 1987) andThe (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued in 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews,Recitative (1986); and a memoir, A Different Person (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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b o d y

Look closely at the letters. Can you see,
entering (stage right), then floating full,
then heading off — so soon —
how like a little kohl-rimmed moon
o plots her course from b to d

—as y, unanswered, knocks at the stage door?
Looked at too long, words fail,
phase out. Ask, now that body shines
no longer, by what light you learn these lines
and what the b and d stood for.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375411399
• ISBN 13: 9780375411397
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736
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