'It is a testament to the breadth of James Merrill's influence that one can, without ruffling too many feathers, declare him the greatest living Am...
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Jan 03, 2009
Valerielynnbassett
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I've had this for years and read portions of it. Over this Christmas I pulled it down and read through more of it more intently. I love how with books of poetry in particular you can go back to them year after year and they just sink and land deeper, more resonant. THat was certainly true for this. Some of the poems are just crystalline. A particularly sharp and lucid writer: sometimes poignant, often a bit...emotionally absent. Though when the emotion pokes through the pellucid descriptions, i
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May 28, 2008
Tedb0t
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The first page has his best poem, "The Black Swan." After that ... I can barely remember.
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