"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I do

Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board

An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.

"Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volum