James Merrill's audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill's recasting of the poem for the stage. The ...
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James Merrill's audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill's recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill's Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson--the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call scribe) and DJ (hand) are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B (God Biology), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair's gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, and utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer's role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill's tale of the joys and tragedies of man's powers, and his messageabout the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x5x1; Second printing, 1983. Black cloth with lettering stamped in blind to the front panel and copper-foil lettering stamped to the spine. Very good with a slight bump at the bottom corner of the rear board. A small blemish to the red top stain of the text block, light soiling to fore and bottom edges. Ownership signature on the verso of first flyleaf. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a tiny chip at the crown and light tanning to the extremities. 8vo. 560pp.
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Very Good. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing (1983). Not price-clipped. Published by Scribners, 1982. Octavo. Hardcover. Red topstain. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear. Great copy of this engaging poetry title.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
