Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525659285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill’s recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill’s Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson—the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call “scribe”) and DJ (“hand”) are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B (“God Biology”), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair’s gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, and utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer’s role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill’s tale of the joys and tragedies of man’s powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry.
The Changing Light at Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525659285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill’s recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill’s Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson—the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call “scribe”) and DJ (“hand”) are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B (“God Biology”), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair’s gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, and utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer’s role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill’s tale of the joys and tragedies of man’s powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525659285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill’s recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill’s Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson—the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call “scribe”) and DJ (“hand”) are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B (“God Biology”), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair’s gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, and utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer’s role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill’s tale of the joys and tragedies of man’s powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry.
Voices from Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Voices from Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ouija boards
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
"The text is largely drawn from my long poem, The Changing Light at Sandover"--Author's note
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ouija boards
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
"The text is largely drawn from my long poem, The Changing Light at Sandover"--Author's note
The Changing Light at Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This dazzling epic poem remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years starting in 1976.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This dazzling epic poem remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years starting in 1976.
The Changing Light at Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780689112836
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780689112836
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
James Merrill's Voices from Sandover
Author: Leah Doyle
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
James Merrill's Voices from Sandover
Author: James Merrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ouija board
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ouija board
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This Composite Voice
Author: Mark A. Bauer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135888035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This Composite Voice is the first in depth examination of the extensive history and particularly vexed nature of this lifelong poetic relationship. It draws on little-known biographical material, uncollected poems, manuscript variants, and annotations found in Merrill's copies of Yeats poems, essays, and A Vision , as well as a close examination of Merrill's better-known writing, to establish the many ways in which Merrill contends with the older poet's haunting personality and poetic accomplishment.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135888035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This Composite Voice is the first in depth examination of the extensive history and particularly vexed nature of this lifelong poetic relationship. It draws on little-known biographical material, uncollected poems, manuscript variants, and annotations found in Merrill's copies of Yeats poems, essays, and A Vision , as well as a close examination of Merrill's better-known writing, to establish the many ways in which Merrill contends with the older poet's haunting personality and poetic accomplishment.
A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover
Author: Robert Polito
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time
James Merrill
Author: Langdon Hammer
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375413332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375413332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--