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Title
The Changing Light at Sandover
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Author
Merrill, James
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
627
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
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Date
February 14, 2006
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Illustrated
Yes
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Bookseller's Inventory #
0307263215.G
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ISBN
9780307263216 / 0307263215
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Weight
2.11 lbs (0.96 kg)
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Dimensions
9.38 x 6.36 x 1.52 in (23.83 x 16.15 x 3.86 cm)
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2006273431
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Dewey Decimal Code
811.54
From the publisher
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) and The Bait (1960); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued 1987) and The (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative (1986); and a memoir, A Different Person (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser are James Merrill’s literary executors. J. D. McClatchy has published six volumes of poetry and three collections of essays. He teaches at Yale, where he also edits The Yale Review. Stephen Yenser has written three books of criticism (one about Merrill) and two volumes of poems. He is a professor of English and the director of Creative Writing at UCLA.
Media reviews
“An astonishing performance . . . As near to [a masterpiece] as anything that American poetry has produced in the last two or three decades.” —The New York Review of Books
“James Merrill has created a poem as central to our generation as The Waste Land was to the one before.” —The New Leader
“In turns comic, elegiac, and darkly prophetic, Sandover is as ambitious in scope as it is audacious in concept . . . combining an epic intent with dramatic and lyric meanings and means. The result may be the greatest long poem an American has yet produced.” —Newsweek
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the author
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From "The Black Swan" (1946) through "A Scattering of Salts" (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as "The Changing Light at Sandover" (1982). He also published two plays, "The Immortal Husband" (1956) and "The Bait" (1960); two novels, "The Seraglio" (1957, reissued 1987) and "The (Diblos) Notebook" (1965, reissued 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, "Recitative" (1986); and a memoir, "A Different Person" (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser are James Merrill's literary executors. J. D. McClatchy has published six volumes of poetry and three collections of essays. He teaches at Yale, where he also edits "The Yale Review." Stephen Yenser has written three books of criticism (one about Merrill) and two volumes of poems. He is a professor of English and the director of Creative Writing at UCLA.
