James Merrill Poems by James Merrill - ISBN: 9781841598086
Hardcover
Love, loss, and life: a giant of American poetry revealed.

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  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 2017

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Summary

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poet selection of the works of a giant of contemporary American poetry.

James Merrill once called his poetic works ‘chronicles of love and loss’, and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his poetry also engages passionately with topical issues - war, terrorism, political corr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841598086
ISBN-10:1841598089
Author:James Merrill
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:15 March 2017
Weight:230g
Dimensions:164mm x 111mm x 16mm
Series:Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
About The Author

James Merrill

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) wrote twelve books of poems, as well as the epic poem “The Changing Light at Sandover.” He published two plays, two novels, and a memoir, “A Different Person.” The recipient of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, Merrill was also a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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