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Title: Collected Poems by James Merrill ISBN: 0-375-41139-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: On Merrill
Comment: Merrill requires no introduction. This is a splendid and comprehensive volume. It is a monolith, which commemorates the work of one of America's outstanding contemporary poets.
This collection includes some truly marvelous work: "The Drowning Poet," "Entrance From Sleep," "Poem in Spring," "Willow," "Walking At Night," "An Urban Convalescence," "The World and the Child," and "My Father's Irish Setters," to name a few.
I enthusiastically recommend this anthology. It serves as a means to remember that poetry of the Western hemisphere is capable of transcendent vision--that the Muses can still sing to twentieth century scribes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent!
Comment: Though occassionally less perfect, these poems scratch the edges of brilliance with every sweep of the pen. They are immaculate, dense, allusive, elusive, and always beautiful. Spend two days with "Charles on Fire" alone and you'll understand why Merrill was--no, IS --so widely admired. You should own this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bull Market for Poetry
Comment: Weighing in at almost 900 pages, this book holds just about all the Merrill you'll ever need outside of "Sandover." Merrill wrote exactly the kind of poems I used to think of as "real" poetry--stately, measured, clever & bittersweet, with lots of exquisite images to savor along the way. So why does this writing feel so stuffy and distant to me now? Reading a Merrill poem is somewhere between doing a crossword and shopping for antiques--you exercise the brain and always find something curious to enjoy, but even the most intimate ones left me strangely unmoved. I know Merrill has a legion of fans, and I can see why--these poems are among the best of their kind. But somehow they reminded me of the good chairs in my mom's living room--you could admire them, but you couldn't sit down. Still, the editors have done an excellent job and you'll enjoy going through this handsome book to make up your own mind.
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Title: Collected Poems: Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart by Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David Gewanter ISBN: 0374126178 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop ISBN: 0374518173 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Changing Light at Sandover : A Poem by James Merrill ISBN: 0679747362 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition) by Hart Crane, Marc Simon, Harold Bloom, Mark Simon ISBN: 0871401789 Publisher: Liveright Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke ISBN: 0385086016 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1974 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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