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The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525659285
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065240
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover written by Robert Polito and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time

The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

James Merrill

Author : Judith Moffett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515139
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill written by Judith Moffett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill

Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets

Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119054
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America's greatest living poet. Examines significant movements in literary history and its development through the years.

What Is It Then between Us?

Author : Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718274
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book What Is It Then between Us? written by Eric Murphy Selinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the solitude of the American self, the difference between idolatrous and companionate affection, and the dream of an "America of love," Eric Murphy Selinger shows how such concerns can shape a poet's most intimate decisions about genre and form. His lucid, elegant prose illuminates not only well-known love poets, including Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams, but also more unexpected figures, notably Wallace Stevens and Mina Loy. Like the poets he discusses, Selinger refuses to view love reductively. Rather, he takes the impulse to debunk love as part of his subject, whether it crops up in Puritan theology or contemporary literary theory. As he details Whitman's courtship of his readers, weighs the restorations of romance in H. D. and Ezra Pound, and demonstrates the bonds between poets as disparate as Robert Creeley and Robert Lowell, Selinger establishes love poetry as an essential American genre.

James Merrill and W.H. Auden

Author : P. Gwiazda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607160
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill and W.H. Auden written by P. Gwiazda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill and W.H. Auden offers a substantial analysis of the literary and personal relationship between two major twentieth-century poets. As Gwiazda argues, Auden's prominence in the post-World War II American poetry scene as a homosexual poet and critic makes his impact on Merrill particularly noteworthy. Merrill's imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets. Combining archival research, textual analysis, and aspects of queer theory, James Merrill and W.H. Auden examines Sandover's implications to the contentious issues of homosexual identity and self-representation.

Chaosmos

Author : Philip Kuberski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409761
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Chaosmos written by Philip Kuberski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how writers like James Joyce, James Merrill, and Doris Lessing; scientists like Gregory Bateson, Ilya Prigogine, and David Bohm; and theorists like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Serres forecasted and initiated a shift away from modernist conceptions of the world as a machine; the self as an isolated, enclosed principle, and representation as a reductive survey of the world and the self. The focus of this book is the "chaosmos" (a Joycean coinage) apparent within the atom and also within analogous "nuclear" sites such as the self, the word, the organism, and the world. By "chaosmos," Kuberski intends a unitary and yet untotalized—a chiasmic—concept of the world as a field of inevitable and intermittent interference and convergence, a multi-leveled complexity from which emerge organisms, languages, and selves. In exploring and mapping chaosmos, Kuberski emphasizes significant convergences of literary and philosophic, deconstructive and organistic, Eastern and Western, and scientific and humanistic points of view.

Poetry & the Dictionary

Author : Andrew Blades
Publisher : Poetry and Lup
ISBN 13 : 1789620562
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Poetry & the Dictionary written by Andrew Blades and published by Poetry and Lup. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the many ways in which dictionaries have stimulated the imaginations of modern and contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, and America, while also considering how poetry has itself been a rich source of material for lexicographers.

Precipitations

Author : Devin Johnston
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819565628
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Precipitations written by Devin Johnston and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the influence of occultism on America poetry from WWII to the present.

James Merrill's Apocalypse

Author : Timothy Materer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill's Apocalypse written by Timothy Materer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry

Author : M. Thurston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023010214X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry written by M. Thurston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero s descent into the Underworld is not only one of the oldest stories in western literature; it is also one of the most often retold. Why do so many modern poets - British and American, black and white, male and female, from the metropole and from the margins - stage Underworld descents in their works? Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative. While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural critique, most recent poets, including James Merrill, Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison, and Seamus Heaney, have found the Underworld descent to be a useful framework for addressing the claims of history and politics.

This Composite Voice

Author : Mark A. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135888043
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book This Composite Voice written by Mark A. Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted the affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This book provides the first in-depth examination of the extensive history and particularly vexed nature of this relationship.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131776322X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

The American House Poem, 1945-2021

Author : Walt Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856251
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The American House Poem, 1945-2021 written by Walt Hunter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage crisis of the early twenty-first century. Walt Hunter argues that, as access to housing expands to include a greater share of the US population, the house emerges as a central metaphor for the poetic imagination. From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.

Word of Mouth

Author : Chad Bennett
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425386
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Word of Mouth written by Chad Bennett and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of modern and contemporary poetry’s vibrant exchange with gossip. Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip’s ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic relationship between gossip and American poetry, uncovering the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality in the twentieth century. Through nuanced readings of Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O’Hara, and James Merrill—poets who famously absorbed and adapted the loose talk that swirled about them and their work—Bennett demonstrates how gossip became a vehicle for alternative modes of poetic practice. By attending to gossip’s key role in modern and contemporary poetry, he recognizes the unpredictable ways that conventional understandings of the modern lyric poem have been shaped by, and afforded a uniquely suitable space for, the expression of queer sensibilities. Evincing an ear for good gossip, Bennett presents new and illuminating queer contexts for the influential poetry of these four culturally diverse poets. Word of Mouth establishes poetry as a neglected archive for our thinking about gossip and contributes a crucial queer perspective to current lyric studies and its renewed scholarly debate over the status and uses of the lyric genre.