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...
