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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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The Changing Light at Sandover

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Works by James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover 337 copies, 3 reviews

Collected Poems 291 copies

Selected Poems, 1946-1985 134 copies

A Different Person: A Memoir 118 copies, 1 review

A Scattering of Salts 91 copies

From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76 85 copies

The (Diblos) Notebook 68 copies, 3 reviews

Divine Comedies 60 copies

Collected Novels and Plays 57 copies

Inner Room 48 copies

Scripts for the Pageant 38 copies

Mirabell: Books of Number 36 copies

Recitative: Prose 36 copies

Collected Prose 35 copies

Nights and Days 32 copies

Late Settings 29 copies

Braving the elements; poems 26 copies, 2 reviews

The Fire Screen 24 copies

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems 22 copies

Water Street 19 copies, 1 review

A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill 14 copies

The Voice of the Poet: James Merrill 14 copies

The seraglio 13 copies, 1 review

Merrill: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 9 copies

The Book of Ephraim 8 copies, 1 review

Voices From Sandover 5 copies

The yellow pages: 59 poems 5 copies

Two Poems (Phoenix Living Poets) 4 copies

FIRST POEMS 3 copies

From the cutting-room floor 3 copies

Casas Reflejadas 2 copies

Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker 2 copies

Divinas comedias 2 copies

Metamorphosis of 741 (SC) 2 copies

Jim's Books: a Collection of Poems and Short Stories. 1 copy

Marbled Paper (SC) 1 copy

Different Person, A Memoir 1 copy

Overdue pilgrimage to Nova Scotia 1 copy

The Image Maker: A Play in One Act 1 copy

El libro de Efraín 1 copy

Samos 1 copy

Recitativo o la educación del poeta. Ensayos y entrevistas 1 copy

Nine Lives 1 copy

The Black Swan and Other Poems 1 copy

The Black Swan, and Other Poems 1 copy

Pieces of History {poem} 1 copy

Poetry - A Magazine of Verse, April 1946, Vol LXVIII, No I 1 copy

Santorini: Stopping the Leak (SC) 1 copy

Souvenirs (SC) 1 copy

The New Yorker, Dec. 24, 1979 "Peter's Tattoos" 1 copy

Casual Wear (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th… 1 copy

Three Poems 1 copy

Hoi chilies kai hē deuterē nuchta : kai alla poiēmata 1 copy

Watching the Dance (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature -… 1 copy

Ideas, Etc. (SC) 1 copy

Log {poem} 1 copy

Five Inscriptions 1 copy

Diblos Notebook 1ST Edition 1 copy

Last Poems. One of 185 copies. 1 copy

Peter 1 copy

The Victor Dog {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

After the Fire {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

In Monument Valley {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

Days of 1935 {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

FIRE SCREEN, POEMS.|THE 1 copy

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Also by James Merrill

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 858 copies, 7 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 672 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 409 copies, 1 review

Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 355 copies, 1 review

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 255 copies, 4 reviews

The Art of Losing (Contributor) 171 copies, 20 reviews

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Contributor) 165 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 1996 (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 1994 (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review

Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 154 copies

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 140 copies, 1 review

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 123 copies, 3 reviews

Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (Afterword, some editions) 80 copies, 1 review

Selected Poems (Translator, some editions) 74 copies

Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (Contributor) 72 copies

American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 59 copies

The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (Contributor) 56 copies

Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (Contributor) 43 copies, 1 review

Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS (Contributor) 29 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (Contributor) 29 copies

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships… (Contributor) 19 copies

New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (Contributor) 12 copies

The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (Contributor) 6 copies, 1 review

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

Locus Solus III-IV, New Poetry, A Special Double Issue (Contributor) 2 copies

Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 (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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James Merrill's book The Art of Losing was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

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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