{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-james-merrill-paperback","title":"Selected Poems of James Merrill - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJ. D. McClatchy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Yenser\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis volume brings together the best of Merrill--and dazzles at every turn. This balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to his work for both students and general readers, and an instant favorite among his familiars.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes poems from the domestic rupture of \"The Broken Home\" to the universal connections of \"Lost in Translation\"; from the American storyteller of \"The Summer People\" to the ecologically motivated satirist of \"Self-Portrait in a TyvekTM Windbreaker.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLog\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThen when the flame forked like a sudden path\u003cbr\u003eI gasped and stumbled, and was less.\u003cbr\u003eDensity pulsing upward, gauze of ash, \u003cbr\u003eDear light along the way to nothingness, \u003cbr\u003eWhat could be made of you but light, and this?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Merrill \u003c\/b\u003e(1926-1995) wrote twelve books of poems, as well as the epic \u003ci\u003eThe Changing Light at Sandover\u003c\/i\u003e. He published two plays, two novels, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Different Person\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.08 x 6.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52729339707699,"sku":"9780375711664","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/zZR69Vczvx9780375711664.webp?v=1763809004","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-james-merrill-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}