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The Book Of Ephraim
[Paperback - 2018]
james merrill
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Knopf | ISBN: 9781524711344 | Pages: 216
Shipping Weight: .327 | Dimensions: 5.9 x .7 x 8.4 inches

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For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser.

"The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

About the Author

James Ingram Merrillwas born on March 3, 1926, and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. FromThe Black Swan(1946) throughA 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(1960); two novels,The Seraglio(1957, reissued in 1987) andThe (Diblos) Notebook(1965, reissued 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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