James Merrill is now widely recognized as one of the essential poets of our time, one of those whose achievement will define postwar American literature. The Consuming Myth is a discerning account of his work that will well serve amateur and initiate alike. Yenser ranges over all of Merrill's writing to date, from a precocious book printed when its author was fifteen to his most recent publication, a verse play. He writes about both of the poet's novels and pays particular attention to the epic poem The Changing Light at Santkver His close readings shed light on Merrill's...
James Merrill is now widely recognized as one of the essential poets of our time, one of those whose achievement will define postwar American liter...
Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser's The Fire in All Things is the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, given annually by The Academy of American Poets to honor an outstanding collection of verse by an American poet who has not previously published a book-length collection. The poems in The Fire in All Things are as intricate as vines that intertwine and twist around the trunk of a tree; yet high though the poems climb, each has its roots in the natural world, and in the heart. Ruins, architectural and emotional, fill these poems even as...
Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser's The Fire in All Things is the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman ...
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...
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 o...
