James Merrill once called his poetic works ''chronicles of love and loss'', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his poetry also engages passionately with topical issues - war, terrorism, political corruption, AIDS, climate change and the destruction of nature.

An admirer of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and W. H. Auden, Merrill, like them, has left a legacy that will speak to readers for years to come.


Format Inbunden Omfång 256 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Everyman Utgivningsdatum 2017-03-02 ISBN 9781841598086