Familiar Spirits

<b>Alison Lurie</b> one of America's greatest novelists has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts gods and spirits with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem The Changing Light at Sandover which Merrill called his chronicles of love and loss. Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York Athens and Key West <b>Familiar Spirits</b> is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.