In This, His First New Book Of Poems In Seven Years, Merrill Is At The Top Of His Form. His Unrivalled Poetic Use Of The Private Life Is Brilliantly Evident. The Stuff Of Autobiography Is Transfigured Becoming A Medium For The Profoundest Truth, Couched In A Language That Draws On Both Rueful Wit And Elegant Slang. From Nine Lives, An Athenian Fable, Through Volcanic Holiday, With Its Euphoric Helicopter Ride, To Family Week At Oracle Ranch, Set In A New Age Rehab Center, His Vivid Glimpses Of The Real World Widen Into Surprising And Meditative Visions That Touch Us All. A Downward Look -- Big Mirrors Outdoors -- Nine Lives -- Morning Exercise -- Alabaster -- Snow Jobs -- Home Fires -- The Ring Cycle -- The Ponchielli Complex -- To The Reader -- Volcanic Holiday -- Rescue -- The Instilling -- Novelettes -- My Father's Irish Setters -- The Great Emigration -- More Or Less -- On The Block -- Scrapping The Computer -- A Look Askance -- Press Release -- Vol. Xliv, No. 4 -- Tony: Ending The Life -- Body -- Pledge -- Cosmo -- Radio -- Family Week At Oracle Ranch -- 164 East 72nd Street -- Quatrains For Pegasus -- The Pyroxenes -- Pearl -- Overdue Pilgrimage To Nova Scotia -- Alessio And The Zinnias -- Self Portrait In Tyvek (tm) Windbreaker -- An Upward Look. By James Merrill.

by James Merrill

Merrill, James

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Random House, Incorporated

Random House AudioBooks

United States, United States of America

First edition, New York, 1995

1, 1995

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