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The Book of Ephraim

3.9/5 ( ratings)

For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser.

The Book of Ephraim, which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies , tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover , the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

Pages: 216

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Release: April 03, 2018

ISBN: 1524711349

ISBN 13: 9781524711344

The Book of Ephraim

3.9/5 ( ratings)

For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser.

The Book of Ephraim, which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies , tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover , the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

Pages: 216

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Release: April 03, 2018

ISBN: 1524711349

ISBN 13: 9781524711344

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