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The Inner Room: Poems, Merrill, James
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0679720499
- EAN
- 9780679720492
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback
- Release Title
- The Inner Room: Poems
- Artist
- Merrill, James
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679720499
ISBN-13
9780679720492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
957734
Product Key Features
Book Title
Inner Room : Poems
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1988
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Places, General
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
88-045265
TitleLeading
The
Synopsis
James Merrill's new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each ('Morning Glory' and 'A Room at the Heart of Things' in Part I and 'Walks in Rome' and 'Losing the Marbles' in Part V). The central section, an arrangement of shorter poems and a bittersweet meditation written some years ago but not collected until now, is framed by the book's most startling accomplishments. In Part II Merrill returns to the verse drama, a genre that he has not worked in since the 1950s, when 'The Bait' was produced off-Broadway. 'The Image Maker' is an exquisitely fashioned one-act play about a santero, a saint-maker, whose carved figures are objects of veneration and sources of power in his Caribbean village. The santero also practices santeria, the Latin American religion that syncretizes the Yoruba lore which the slaves brought with them from West Africa and the Catholicism imposed on them in their new world. In this exotic context, Merrill rings changes on themes developed in his epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover. Part IV, a sequence entitled 'Prose of Departure, is itself another striking departure from Merrill's recent work. Set mostly in Japan, it intertwines narratives of beginnings and endings even as it intersperses its prose with hokku in a manner reminiscent of Basho's travel journals -- though the delicately managed rhymes set Merrill's cachet upon the form. Among the other work here are poems in Sapphics and in syllabics; a villanelle whose recursions celebrate memory', and a doubled anagram, in which the English poem is shadowed by a French version" Stephen Yenser author of The Consuming Myth, The Work of James Merrill
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- e***8 (1219)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood eBayer
- 2***k (515)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseA+++++
- a***e (652)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI was afraid this paperback would be edited to shorten it down but it has the full text, and all pictures. Nice transaction.