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Book by Merrill, James
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About the Author
James Merrill (1926-1995) was renowned for the elegance and humane complexity of his work, and is considered the leading lyric poet of his generation. His travels around the world--with their displacements and discoveries--are the subject of many of his poems, but at heart he was an autobiographical poet whose "chronicles of love and loss" tracked the heart as poignantly as a poet ever has. In his huge epic poem on occult themes, in his enthralling narrative poems, or in his small exquisite lyrics, he wrote in a distinctively urbane and engaging voice that made his career one of the wonders of contemporary poetry.
Review
"The (Diblos) Notebook is a delightful and sad picture of the Hesitation Waltz of creation. It has a fallen angel, the writer, for its hero-villain. I don't know of any book that deals so honestly with the sin of consciousness, and its island setting is a little paradise lost. I read it with pangs of recognition." -- Mary McCarthy
"The (Diblos) Notebook is a genuine and unpretentious work of art. . . . Its true subject is its own manner and style, its elusive, almost furtive brilliance, so that the book really is about the poetic impression, the quick insight, the misunderstanding, the discarded sketch as opposed to the constructed and finished museum piece." -- John Thompson, New York Review of Books
"This is the kind of novel it is a pleasure to take seriously, a disciplined, adventurous performance in the best tradition of fictional experiment." -- Wilfrid Sheed, New York Times Book Review
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. INSCRIBED by author on full title page, "James Merrill (for Rolland Comstock)." First paperback edition. Atheneum 209. "A young writer keeps a notebook, which records at one and the same time a series of happenings on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these happenings into a novel." Ships same or next business day. Book has some edge and shelf wear, small rubs on spine ends, small crease on bottom left corner of back cover, price torn out on top right corner of front cover, light soiling on edges of pages, covers slightly turn up at fore-edges; otherwise, free from major defect. Protected in archival plastic cover. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 147 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 69057