James Merrill

Selected Poems

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James Merrill himself 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. This volume brings together the best of Merrill-from the domestic rupture of The Broken Home to the universal connections of Lost in Translation; from the American storyteller of The Summer People to the ecologically motivated satirist of Self-Portrait in a TyvekTM Windbreaker. Merrill dazzles at every turn, and this balanced and compact selection will be an ideal… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mcclatchy, J. D. / Yenser, Stephen

ISBN: 978-0-375-71166-4
EAN: 9780375711664
Produktnummer: 3661494
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 324 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B17.4 cm x D2.2 cm 533 g
Gewicht: 533

Über den Autor

James Merrill (1926-1995) wrote twelve books of poems, as well as the epic The Changing Light at Sandover. He published two plays, two novels, and a memoir, A Different Person. The recipient of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, Merrill was also a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.