James Merrill was a leading twentieth century poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Charles Merrill was his father, husband of Hellen Merrill and founder of the investment firm of Merrill Lynch.This book came out in 1995, the year of Merrill's death. It is inscribed by Merrill's mother, Hellen I. Plummer, ex-wife of Charles Merrill: "For Toby Wolter - It's too late for the author's autograph but never too late for his love and mine. Hellen I. Plummer."Wolter was a friend of both James and Hellen Merrill.Minor fading around the edges of the cover. 96pp. Dust jacket is in fine condition. A very nice and important association copy.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Scattering of Salts, Poems. (first edition, association copy)

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0679441581

ISBN 13

9780679441588

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Inscribed by author's mother

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The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of this, his last book of poems. "In these last poems, lucid, deft, fond, shrewd, faithful, Merrill once again reveals himself as our most visual poet, combining a superb eye with an unfailing ear."--Peter Davison, Boston Globe.

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About the Author

James Merrill was born in New York City on March 3, 1926, and lived in Stonington, Connecticut. He was the author of twelve books of poems, which won him two National Book Awards (for and Mirabell), the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (for Divine Comedies) and the first Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress (for The Inner Room, 1988). The Changing Light at Sandover appeared in 1982 and included the long narrative poem begun with "The Book of Ephraim" (from Divine Comedies), plus Mirabell: Books of Number and Scripts for the Pagaent in their entirety; it received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 1985. In addition to the one-volume edition of his narrative poem The Changing Light at Sandover, he also issued two selected volumes: From the First Nine, Poems 1946-1976 (1982) and Selected Poems 1946-1985 (1992). He was the author of two novels, The (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued in 1994) and The Seraglio (1957, reissued in 1987), and two plays, The Immortal Husband (first produced in 1955 and published in Playbook the following year) and, in one act, The Bait, published in Artist's Theater (1960). A book of essays, Recitative, appeared in 1986, and in 1993 a memoir, A Different Person. His last book of poems, A Scattering of Salts, was published in 1995, following his untimely death on February 6 of that year.

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