A Scattering of Salts, Poems.
Merrill, James
ISBN 10: 0679441581 ISBN 13: 9780679441588
Published by Alfred A. Knopf (edition ), 1995
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The award-winning poet-author of Nights and Days, The Changing Light at Sandover, and The Inner Room transforms autobiographical insights and experiences into profound meditations on life and the world around him, in a new collection of poetry.
About the Author: James Merrill was born in New York City on March 3, 1926, and lived in Stonington, Connecticut. He was the author of twelve books of poems, which won him two National Book Awards (for and Mirabell), the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (for Divine Comedies) and the first Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress (for The Inner Room, 1988). The Changing Light at Sandover appeared in 1982 and included the long narrative poem begun with "The Book of Ephraim" (from Divine Comedies), plus Mirabell: Books of Number and Scripts for the Pagaent in their entirety; it received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 1985. In addition to the one-volume edition of his narrative poem The Chan
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Title: A Scattering of Salts, Poems.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (edition )
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good