James Merrill : selected poems / edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser.
- Title
- James Merrill : selected poems / edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser.
- Published by
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
- Author
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- Description
- xvi, 298 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Contents
- From First poems, 1951 -- from The country of a thousand years of peace, 1959 -- from Water Street, 1962 -- from Nights and days, 1966 -- from The first screen, 1969 -- from Braving the elements, 1972 -- from Divine comedies, 1976 -- from The changing light at Sandover, 1982 -- from Late settings, 1985 -- from The Inner Room, 1988 -- from A scattering of salts, 1995 -- from Collected poems, 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-296) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain