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hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 " 700 pages. tiny red dot on bottom edge of pages. shipping will be extra, please inquire.

Paperback. xvi, 298p., introduction, notes, short chronology, suggested reading, fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Trade Paperback Edition. MONUMENTAL: COLLECTIBLE: NEW: First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. November 2002) First Printing: An IMPECCABLE Copy * 6.0" x 9.14" x 1.88", 1.20 kg, xx+885 (905) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: LANDMARK: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. March 3, 2001) Third Printing (April 2001): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW black linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE mauve card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior printed in Fournier w/ ELEGANT clarity on excellent unblemished archival paper * 6.12" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.38 kg, xx+888 (908) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's "Collected Poems" is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Stated First Edition. INDISPENSABLE: INTIMATE: NUANCED: GREATNESS: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2004) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW lemon-yellow linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & scripted "James Merrill" stamp-engraved on front panel, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE crimson card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & crimson cloth banding at spine-caps w/ crimson silk age-marking ribbon bound-in from the top, PRISTINE interior printed in Fournier w/ ELEGANT clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 9.36" x 6.12" x 1.72", 1.08 kg, x+740 (750) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Following James Merrill's widely celebrated "Collected Poems" & "Collected Novels & Plays", this volume gives us, most intimately, the man himself & his charmingly straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much as any poet of our time, Merrill conceived of his work & his life as warp & woof, & the prose collected here (from his juvenilia & occasional pieces through his critical writings to his interviews & memoir) shows how bound up in his craft (itself a recurrent topic) were his readings & reflections, his travels & friendships. Even Merrill's most devoted readers will be startled anew at the range of his aesthetic concerns & the depth of his knowledge. Dante & Ponge, Cavafy & Montale, Elizabeth Bishop & Wallace Stevens, all figure prominently here, & the volume is shot through w/ commentary on music, especially opera, & descriptions of the world's great cities (including New York, Paris, Istanbul, & Kyoto) & their cultural treasures. The volume closes resoundingly w/ "A Different Person", Merrill's memoir of his young life, in which he travels to Europe to explore the culture, comes of age as a gay man, & faces down his legacy as the son of the renowned financier Charles E. Merrill. As Merrill remarks to one interviewer here, a poet is "someone choosing the words he lives by". This volume, a cross section of a singularly complex literary life, showcases the care for verbal nuance & the inimitably varied tones that distinguish this great American writer. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JAMES MERRILL was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City & died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, & for extended periods he also had houses in Athens & Key West. From "The Black Swan" (1946) through "A Scattering of Salts" (1995), he wrote 12 books of poems, 10 of them published in trade editions, as well as "The Changing Light at Sandover" (1982). He also published 2 plays, "The Immortal Husband" (1956) & "The Bait" (1960); two novels, "The Seraglio" (1957, reissued 1987) & "The (Diblos) Notebook" (1965, reissued 1994); a book of essays, interviews, & reviews, "Recitative" (1986); & a memoir, "A Different Person" (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including 2 National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, & the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets & a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: J.D. McClatchy & Stephen Yenser are James Merrill's literary executors. J.D. McClatchy has published 6 volumes of poetry & 2 collections of essays. He teaches at Yale & is the editor of The Yale Review. Stephen Yenser has written 3 books of criticism (one about Merrill) & a volume of poems. He is a professor of English & the director of Creative Writing at UCLA. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Date on title page. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket (U. S. A. $40.00 Canada $60.00). Only trivial, if any signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

First edition, first printing New and bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Nicely illustrated with vintage photographs. Gift quality all around.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Slight creasing else near fine.