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Author photo. Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center

James Merrill (1926–1995)

Author of The Changing Light at Sandover

Includes the names: James Merril, Merrill James, James Ingram Merrill

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Works by James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover 298 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Poems 275 copies
Selected Poems, 1946-1985 122 copies
A Different Person: A Memoir 103 copies, 1 review
From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76 82 copies
A Scattering of Salts 78 copies
The (Diblos) Notebook 67 copies, 3 reviews
Divine Comedies 58 copies
Collected Novels and Plays 53 copies
Inner Room 42 copies
Scripts for the Pageant (Author) 38 copies
Recitative: Prose 35 copies
Collected Prose 33 copies
Mirabell: Books of Number 30 copies

Nights and Days 30 copies

Late Settings 25 copies

Braving the elements; poems 24 copies, 2 reviews

The Fire Screen 20 copies

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems 19 copies

Water Street 17 copies, 1 review

The Voice of the Poet: James Merrill 12 copies

The seraglio 11 copies, 1 review

The Book of Ephraim 5 copies

Merrill: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 4 copies

Voices From Sandover 4 copies

The yellow pages: 59 poems 4 copies

The Paris Review 122 1992 Spring 3 copies

Metamorphosis of 741 (SC) 2 copies

Two Poems (Phoenix Living Poets) 2 copies

From the cutting-room floor 2 copies

FIRST POEMS 2 copies

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Also by James Merrill

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 618 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 388 copies
Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 338 copies, 1 review
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 229 copies, 3 reviews
The Art of Losing (Contributor) 156 copies, 19 reviews
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Contributor) 154 copies, 1 review
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 125 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 124 copies
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 114 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems (Translator, some editions) 89 copies
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (Afterword, some editions) 73 copies, 1 review
Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (Contributor) 66 copies
American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 52 copies
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review

Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS (Contributor) 30 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (Contributor) 27 copies

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships… (Contributor) 18 copies

New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (Contributor) 10 copies

The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (Contributor) 5 copies

Playbook: Five Plays for a New Theater (Contributor) 5 copies

Locus Solus III-IV, New Poetry, A Special Double Issue (Contributor) 1 copy

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Merrill, James Ingram

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Burial location

Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Connecticut, USA

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Birthplace

New York, New York, USA

Place of death

Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Southampton, New York, USA

Stonington, Connecticut, USA

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Education

Amherst College

Occupations

Relationships

Jackson, David (partner)

Merrill, Charles (brother)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1971)

Awards and honors

Bollingen Prize (1973)

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Links

James Merrill Papers (Washington University in St. Louis)

James Merrill Papers (Yale University)

Paris Review Interview (1982)

New York Times obituary

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