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The Book of Ephraim

The Book of Ephraim

The Book of Ephraim
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by James Merrill; Notes by Stephen Yenser

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Penguin Books , pp. 216 Annotated edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP. Papeback. New.
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  • Title The Book of Ephraim
  • Author James Merrill; Notes by Stephen Yenser
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Publication date pp. 216 Annotated edition NO-P
  • Features Annotated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6375648507
  • ISBN 9781524711344 / 1524711349
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects POETRY / American / General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017031528
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser.

"The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

About the author

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995), one of the foremost American poets of the later twentieth century, was the winner of numerous awards for his work, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the first Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress. From The Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995) he published eleven volumes of poems, in addition to the trilogy comprising The Changing Light at Sandover. He also published two plays, two novels, a collection of essays and interviews, and a memoir. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

STEPHEN YENSER has written three books of criticism, among them The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, and three volumes of poems. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at UCLA and the coeditor with J. D. McClatchy of Merrill's Collected Poems, The Changing Light at Sandover, Collected Novels and Plays, and Collected Prose.

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