{"product_id":"selected-poems-james-merrill-9780375711664","title":"Selected Poems of James Merrill","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume brings together the best of Merrill--and dazzles at every turn. This balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to his work for both students and general readers, and an instant favorite among his familiars.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Merrill himself once called his body of work \"chronicles of love and loss,\" and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life--comic and haunting, exotic and domestic--to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes poems from the domestic rupture of \"The Broken Home\" to the universal connections of \"Lost in Translation\"; from the American storyteller of \"The Summer People\" to the ecologically motivated satirist of \"Self-Portrait in a TyvekTM Windbreaker.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLog\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThen when the flame forked like a sudden path\u003cbr\u003eI gasped and stumbled, and was less.\u003cbr\u003eDensity pulsing upward, gauze of ash, \u003cbr\u003eDear light along the way to nothingness, \u003cbr\u003eWhat could be made of you but light, and this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Merrill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 037571166X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375711664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.98w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2008 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/16\/2008 pg. 22","brand":"James Merrill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046972223743,"sku":"9780375711664","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67208d85-892f-43da-85b8-d151bf80cb68.jpg?v=1684987549","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selected-poems-james-merrill-9780375711664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}