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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. And while many would think the hierarchical, socially complex, shaded afterlife of changing light to be hellish, it is less oppressive than the schema of other systems whether derived from monotheisms, dante, milton, or yeats. As it flowed on, his streamofconsciousness deepened. Poetic authority in james merrills the changing light at sandover. The occult was central to all of merrill s later work, including the book of ephraim, which is the current focus of the james merrill digital archive. An important issue professor mendelson raises is the degree to which the text of merrill s long poem the changing light at sandover is indebted to his lifelong. Merrill and his last partner, actor peter hooten, adapted the poem for a live ensemble reading at the agassiz theatre at radcliffe college ina performance filmed and released as voices from sandover. I slammed into a wall in the middle of this, and kind of mrrill up on it. The changing light at sandover by james merrill, paperback. Merrill wrote a 600page poem, excerpted here, entitled the changing light at sandover, based on his and his longtime partners adventures with. A series of mystical poems explores the authors experiences communicating through a ouija board with a spirit named ephraim who guides the poet through a series of conversations with w.
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The publishers blurbs on the back cover list merrill in the same breath with yeats, dante, homer, and milton. He was the recipient of two national book awards, the bollingen prize, the pulitzer prize, and the bobbitt prize from the library of congress, among other awards. The changing light at sandover began in social life, as a feature of merrill and jackson s long evenings with their guests in the stonington apartment. There is nothing else in american poetry like the late james merrill s multipleprizewinning the changing light at sandover, a 560page epic poem about his evenings spent at the ouija board with his partner, david jackson, first published in one volume in. An astonishing performance as near to a masterpiece as the changing light at sandover by merrill, james. Read online a readers guide to james merrills the changing light at sandover and download a readers guide to james merrills the changing light at sandover book full in pdf formats. James merrill s book of ephraim stephen yenser mirror john hollander monsters wrapped in silk. Merrill, like twain, enjoys imagining a heaven that is in certain senses fully human. Click to read more about the changing light at sandover by james merrill.