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Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780679765905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of poetry in which the author transforms autobiographical insights and experiences into profound meditations on life and the world around him.
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780689112836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1400834325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0525520244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 918
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.
Author: Reena Sastri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0415955920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Timothy Materer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801437601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs also inspire Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Hala Alyan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0544912381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR • NYLON • Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage "What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family's struggle with that question and how it can haunt generations. . . . This is an example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us." — NPR Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again. On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can’t escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990, Alia and her family once again lose their home and their land, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia’s children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand.
Author: Langdon Hammer
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 0375413332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--
Author: Claude H. Yoder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0470075090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA practical introduction to ionic compounds for both mineralogists and chemists, this book bridges the two disciplines. It explains the fundamental principles of the structure and bonding in minerals, and emphasizes the relationship of structure at the atomic level to the symmetry and properties of crystals. This is a great reference for those interested in the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals.
