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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Add this copy of The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of to cart. $406.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Scribner.
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Very Good. 3 volume set-Divine Comedies, Mirabell & Scripts for the Pageant-all 3 1st edition 1st printings-Divine Comedies signed with small inscription by Merrill on title page "For Henry (again) with love JM"slight wear to edge of dust jacket of Scripts-slightest staining to closed page edges-otherwise dust jackets ans covers fine bindings strong contents clean-now in mylar covers-enjoy an important work.
Add this copy of The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of to cart. $407.00, like new condition, Sold by Shelley and Son Books (IOBA) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hendersonville, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Scribner.
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Fine in Very Good + jacket. Size: 9x6x1; FIRST EDITION, 1982. James Merrill was a leading twentieth century poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Charles Merrill was his father, husband of Hellen Merrill and founder of the investment firm of Merrill Lynch. This copy is signed on the half title page. 560pp. CONDITION: Hardbound navy cloth boards, blind stamped title and author's initials on front, red title on spine. Normal shelf wear top and bottom edges. Pictorial fly leaves. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket illustrated with front photograph; reviews of several poems on back. Small damp stain top of rear dj, else in fine condition; protected by mylar cover.
Add this copy of The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of to cart. $707.00, good condition, Sold by Sunny Day Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Mayer, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Scribner.
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Good. 1 book. Signed and inscribed by DJ and JM. A nice copy. Text in clean/unmarked condition. DJ shows wear and has some minor tears. Binding is tight.
