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Merrill: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Merrill, James [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101101907851

ISBN-139781101907856

eBay Product ID (ePID)234400054

Product Key Features

Book TitleMerrill: Poems : Edited by Langdon Hammer

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, General, American / General, Lgbt

Publication Year2017

GenrePoetry

AuthorJames Merrill

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length6.5 in

Item Width4.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-044090

Reviews"Reading Merrill is like reading Marvell or Keats or Dickinson; having his lines in mind is that unique thing, a voice that says somebody was here before." --Los Angeles Times, "A gorgeously written and elegantly comprehensive study of the tumult and passion of Merrill's Life and Art."--The Economist "A fascinating, engrossing portrait of a deeply lived life."--Tobias Carroll, Biographile "[Hammer] sums up people and milieus with strong, deft strokes. The historian and the critic in him are in elegant synchronicity. He goes to work on Merrill's outsize life like a master fishmonger carving a bluefin tuna. Every cut is measured. Nothing is wasted. The best and fattiest bits - the poetry, in this case - are reserved, like sashimi, for special use."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "By a wide margin the largest, most detailed, and most convincingly atmospheric biography ever written about Merrill - it has all the rhetorical and bibliographical flavor of a durable landmark. It's considerably helped along toward that goal by Hammer's lively storytelling style. . . James Merrill: Life and Art is a brilliantly marshaled biography of a surprisingly elusive subject."--Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly "Langdon Hammer's richly textured biography of James Merrill's life and art, which are so inextricably intertwined, is a work of great candor, insight, and sympathetic imagination. It is a magisterial achievement."--Edward Hirsch "This is an overwhelming book. Very few writers have been as intimately portrayed--or had their work as illuminatingly read--as James Merrill in Langdon Hammer's prodigious biography. His empathetic yet clear-eyed account shows how Merrill's exquisite "feeling for the word" merged with his lust for living in an idiosyncratic artistic heroism that produced some of the great lyric poetry of the late twentieth century." --Jonathan Galassi "Fabulously wealthy, gay, prodigiously gifted, Merrill emerges in this stunningly capacious and moving biography in his full complexities: a generous man who thought himself cold; a Jamesian sensibility flinging himself upon the thorns of life; a meticulous formalist who submitted to the occu< a man who hid his HIV-positive status but became, one now sees, one of the major poets of the AIDS crisis. Merrill has found in Langdon Hammer a biographer of enormous discernment, grace and style: it is all here, indefatigably researched, delicately sifted, astutely judged, beautifully written."--Maureen N. McLane "Discovering James Merrill's profound masterwork, "The Changing Light at Sandover," just as AIDS was beginning to alter the way we lived then and now saved many a soul. His portrait of gay domesticity that rarely noticed its own difference not only challenged the idea of "queerness" in literature, but in the world. Langdon Hammer's epic study of an epic mind is essential not only to our understanding of the prolific poet, but to the art of biography. Beautifully written and reasoned, Hammer's book possesses all the qualities Merrill prized in his own work, and life: humor, narrative energy, acute observation and analysis that is profound because it is true."--Hilton Als "Meticulously researched, Langdon Hammer's James Merrill chronicles the life of a poet who believed nothing is lost-- and whose poetry of personal experience, sifted by sensibility, is a poetry of mirror and mask, flesh and spirit, disclosure and secrecy. Most of all, it's a poetry, and a life, crafted from the sublime and the elemental, brilliantly mixed, which Hammer interprets with tender insight and wise sympathy."--Brenda Wineapple

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal811.54

SynopsisA beautiful hardcover selection of poems by one of the giants of contemporary American poetry. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. James Merrill 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. Like Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising and compelling ways--ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler wrote of Merrill, "He has become one of our indispensable poets." This volume brings together an entirely new pocket-sized selection of the best of Merrill's work. His poetry dazzles at every turn, and this balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to the work for both students and general readers, and an instant favorite among his familiars.

LC Classification NumberPS3525.E6645A6 2016