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... line’” (122). Will they know what “heuristic” means? Or “quibble” in that context? The words I myself needed either to learn or brush up on in order to read the non-Merrill parts of the book include “apricity,” “chiropteran,” “congeries,” “Cratylean,” “eldritch,” “gallimaufrey,” “macaronic...

...Ben Leubner James Merrill: Life and Art , by Hammer Langdon , New York : Knopf , 2015 . 944 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 For those familiar with James Merrill’s poetry, reading Langdon Hammer’s James Merrill: Life and Art for the first time is like reading...

...Claudia Ingram Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m “Fission and Fusion Both Liberate Energy”: James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and the Metaphoric Imagination Claudia Ingram I n July 1947 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the doomsday clock...

...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Timothy Materer Life and the memory of it so compressed they turned into each other —Elizabeth Bishop (Poems 177) Jam es...

...Timothy J. Materer A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill . Edited by Hammer Langdon Yenser Stephen . New York : Knopf , 2021 . 723 pages. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 The publisher’s blurb for A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill states that Merrill...

...Chad Bennett This article reveals the formative interplay between the queer art of gossip and poetic practice in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover , a sprawling verse trilogy composed with the unlikely assistance of a Ouija board. The poem’s extensive gossip with the dead is often...

...Nikki Skillman Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 James Merrill’s Embodied Memory James Merrill’s Embodied Memory Nikki Skillman In his mature poem “Verse for Urania,” James Merrill addresses his infant goddaughter on the day of her baptism. The aging poet observes Urania’s...

...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill s Early Poetry Timothy Materer You know, this guy’s got a secret, and he’s gonna keep it. —Arthur Miller to Dylan Thomas about James Merrill...

...Luke Carson Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay Luke Carson -/Alison Lurie’s impression of James Merrill on first meeting him was that he “seemed both coolly detached and awkwardly self-conscious. He appeared to have read...

...Reena Sastri Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 w A Scattering of Salts: Merrill’s Temporal Innocence Reena Sastri I n A Scattering of Salts the return of innocence “with a difference” (Poems 651)1 is Merrill’s aim and his subject.This volume’s poems seek ways...

...Merrill Cole Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Backwards Ventriloquy: The Historical Uncanny in Barnes’s Nightwood Merrill Cole N ot those who had seen him last, but me who had seen him best, as if my memory of him were himself; and because you forget...

... by Siobhan Phillips Columbia University Press, 2010. 319 pages Jeff  Westover Readers of Siobhan Phillips’s Poetics of the Everyday will find her insights about the ordinary opportunities of daily life in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill widely...

...Jeff Westover Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney , by Rotella Guy , Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2004 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Not Marble nor...

... with Questions: Mary Butts’s Sacred Interroga­ tive.” 49.3 (2003): 360-387 Burke, Kenneth. See Genter Butts, Mary. See Buchanan arson, Luke. “James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay” 50.2 (2004): 167-191 Carstens, Lisa. “Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie’s...

... in what later became the United States, the imperialistic human explorers blatantly disrespect Indigenous culture and focus greedily on what they can extract from the planet. Lambert also draws on Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont’s Judith Merril: A Critical Study (2012) to analyze the science fiction...

... given to contemporaries like Merrill and Ashbery. Take the case of Harold Bloom’s “When You Consider the Radiance,” which appears near the beginning of the book. It serves as a kind of lead car, behind which many of the subsequent pieces line up. But Bloom’s essay clunks in crucial places...

... who regard Bishop as a major poet often credit the size distinction. In the years following Bishop’s death in 1979, James Merrill described his alarm at his own gravitation toward the genre of the long poem as opposed in particular to the distinctive, small, or curious poems of Bishop, his...

... what she calls the “entanglement of the literal and figurative” (4) in the work of Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Frank Bidart, Mark Doty, Paul Monette, D. A. Powell, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and Susan Howe. Plath, Rich, Graham, and Howe are each given their own chapters, and for the most...

... of the Cold War years like Anthony Hecht and James Merrill, his interest is necessarily held by poetry designed to challenge or undermine verse (and prose and film) that speaks from within the official discourse of the cul­ tural imaginary. In this process, no poet is so useful as the always impos­...

.... Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.137—54. Robbins, Bruce. Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress. New York: New York UP, 1999. Watt, Ian. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: U of California P, 1979. 417 ...