A pristine, collectible book with no flaws. The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of this, his last book of poems. "In these last poems, lucid, deft, fond, shrewd, faithful, Merrill once again reveals himself as our most visual poet, combining a superb eye with an unfailing ear."--Peter Davison, Boston Globe.

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Title: A SCATTERING OF SALTS
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679441581
ISBN 13: 9780679441588
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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.

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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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