Collected poems:

Merrill touched each of his subjects, whether worldly or spiritual, with silvery wit and metrical music. A bracing glass of ouzo, afternoons at the gym with a gay partner, conversations with deceased friends via the Ouija board, a midnight swim -- all were occasions for contemplation and high art

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Beteilige Person: Merrill, James Ingram 1926-1995 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Knopf 2001
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:A Borzoi book
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Zusammenfassung:Merrill touched each of his subjects, whether worldly or spiritual, with silvery wit and metrical music. A bracing glass of ouzo, afternoons at the gym with a gay partner, conversations with deceased friends via the Ouija board, a midnight swim -- all were occasions for contemplation and high art
Here are all the poems -- from his earliest published collection, The Black Swan and Other Poems (1946), to his posthumous volume, A Scattering of Salts (1995) -- together with many that have never been previously collected
Abstract:The volume that brings together, for the first time, the complete works of one of the giants of American poetry
Umfang:XX, 885 S. Ill.
ISBN:0375411399
037570941X