The Inner Room - Softcover

Merrill, James

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ISBN 10: 0394720490 ISBN 13: 9780394720494

Publisher: Knopf, 1988

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A verse play about a saint carver accompanies poems about travel, memory, Japan, religion, friendship, and mortality

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Afternoons At The Noh
Another Cemetery
Arabian Night
Arrival In Tokyo
Bunraku
Cornwall
David's Watercolor
Dead Center
Declaration Day
Donald's Neighborhood
Dozen
Eight Bits: 1. Laser Majesty
Eight Bits: 2. If U Cn Rd Ths
Eight Bits: 3. Voltaire: A Statue Of Christ In Jesuit Attire
Eight Bits: 4. Anagram/anagramme
Eight Bits: 5. Lipstick, 1935
Eight Bits: 6. Snake Pit
Eight Bits: 7. To An Actor On Location For A Film
Eight Bits: 8. A Bit Of Blue Tile On The Beach
Farewell Performance
The Fifteenth Summer
For A Bestiary: 1. Carp
For A Bestiary: 2. Spell
For A Bestiary: 3. Monday Morning
Geiger Counter
Ginger Beef
Grace
Graffito
Hindu Illumination
Icecap
The Image Maker
Imagining It
In The Shop
Investiture At Cecconi's
Kyogen Interlude: At The Bank
Kyoto
Little Fallacy
Losing The Marbles
Menu
Morning Glory
The Parnassians
Processional
River Trip
A Room At The Heart Of Things
Sanctum
Serenade
Strategies
Two From Florida: Green Cove Springs
Two From Florida: The Dresden Doll
Walks In Rome
Waterspout
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Library Journal:

Here Merrill gives us poems, prose poems, and a one-act play in verse. In the play, "The Image Maker," Merrill skillfully uses magic and folk religion as a metaphor for the power of language and art, while "Prose of Departure" slips effectively from prose to haiku and back. The poems themselves are not as good, suffering from description for its own sake and wordplay that too often spoils the mood. Merrill's earlier Late Settings ( LJ 6/85) is superior. This is worth adding to poetry collections because of the play, but it is not essential Merrill. Steven Hupp, Eisenhower P.L., Harwood Heights, Ill.
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