The Book of Ephraim: Including The Whole Of The Book Of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books Of Number, Scripts For The Pageant, And A New Coda, The Higher Keys

Synopsis

For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser."The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780525520245

Related ISBNs:

9781524711344

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Date of Addition:

07/30/20

Copyrighted By:

James Merrill

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender

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Bookshare Staff

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