Selected Poems of James Merrill

This volume brings together the best of Merrilland dazzles at every turn. This balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to his work for both students and general readers and an instant favorite among his familiars.. 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 lifecomic and haunting exotic and domesticto shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment.. Includes poems 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.LogThen when the flame forked like a sudden pathI gasped and stumbled and was less.Density pulsing upward gauze of ashDear light along the way to nothingnessWhat could be made of you but light and this?