A scattering of salts : poems / by James Merrill.
A scattering of salts : poems / by James Merrill.
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New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N811.54/M571.4/3
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English
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Physical content
viii, 96 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
A Downward Look -- Big Mirror Outdoors -- Nine Lives -- Morning Exercise -- Alabaster -- Snow Jobs -- Home Fires -- The Ring Cycle -- The Ponchielli Complex -- To the Reader -- Volcanic Holiday -- Rescue -- The Instilling -- Novelettes -- My Father's Irish Setters -- The Great Emigration -- More or...
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Publisher
New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1995.
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In this, his first new book of poems in seven years, Merrill is at the top of his form. His unrivalled poetic use of the private life is brilliantly evident. The stuff of autobiography is transfigured becoming a medium for the profoundest truth, couched in a language that draws on both rueful wit and elegant slang. From "Nine Lives," an Athenian fa...
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A scattering of salts : poems / by James Merrill.
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N811.54/M571.4/3
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74VKRKEO7wed
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0679441581
9780679441588
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811.54
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991023086949702626
