The Changing Light at Sandover
$68.00
- Paperback
627 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2011
Summary
James Merrill‘s audacious and dazzling epic poem, "The Changing Light at Sandover, "remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes "Voices from …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375711749 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375711740 |
| Author: | James Merrill |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 627 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 930g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 150mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“An astonishing performance … As near to [a masterpiece] as anything that American poetry has produced in the last two or three decades.” –The New York Review of Books
“James Merrill has created a poem as central to our generation as The Waste Land was to the one before.” –The New Leader “In turns comic, elegiac, and darkly prophetic, Sandover is as ambitious in scope as it is audacious in concept … combining an epic intent with dramatic and lyric meanings and means. The result may be the greatest long poem an American has yet produced.” –Newsweek
About The Author
James Merrill
James Merrill was the author of thirteen books of poems as well as plays, novels, essays, reviews, and a memoir. He was the recipient of two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, among other awards. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 1995.
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