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Synopsis
Fifty years of the author's acclaimed poetry--with works ranging from his earliest anthology, The Black Swan and Other Poems, to the posthumous volume A Scattering of Salts--are collected into a single volume for the first time, celebrating a lifetime of verse by one of the twentieth century's literary masters. 10,000 first printing.
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About the Author
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950's on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. FromThe Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well asThe Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) andThe Bait (1860); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued in 1987) andThe (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued in 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews,Recitative (1986); and a memoir, A Different Person (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf, 2001. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Full black cloth with gilt and red spine lettering, purple endpapers, and silk ribbon page marker. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 885 pages, with index. Edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. The definitive posthumous anthology of James Merrill s poetry, encompassing his life s work from early verse through his late masterworks, including "The Changing Light at Sandover." Merrill (1926- 1995), one of the most celebrated American poets of the twentieth century, won the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, and the Bollingen Prize, among many other honors. Seller Inventory # Poetry-Rear-Merrill