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James Merrill

James Merrill( )
Author: Merrill, James Ingram
Garney, John
Garney, Jane
Series title:The Voice of the Poet Ser.
ISBN:978-0-375-40667-6
Publication Date:Apr 1999
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Book Format:Audio cassette
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

A remarkable new series of audiobooks, featuring the most distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings on cassette and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor ofThe Yale Review.

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.48 x 7.15 x 1.07 Inches
Book Weight:0.309 Pounds
Author Biography
Merrill, James Ingram (Author)
James Ingram Merrill 1926-1995 James Ingram Merrill was born in New York on March 3, 1926. He attended Amherst College. Merrill would go on to receive every major poetry award in the United States, including the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies. Merrill was honored in mid-career with the Bollingen Prize in 1973. He would receive the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for his epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover. He won the National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1967 for Nights and Days and in 1979 for Mirabell: Books of Number.

Merrill died on February 6, 1995. Since his death, his work has been anthologized in three divisions: Collected Poems, Collected Prose, and Collected Novels and Plays.

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