A Different Person: A Memoir
A Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry book. Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 271 pages
- ISBN: 9780062510792 / 62510797
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Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip for sacred visitations. James Merrill, A Different Person: A Memoir // Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself. James Merrill, A Different Person: A Memoir //
James Merrill, the poet, was the son of one of the co-founders of Merrill Lynch, and as such lived a cosseted and privileged life. This tells of his youthful life in Europe in the early 1950s, and he has a poet's skill for rendering the sights and exotic people he encountered. My own fault for not liking this better--I'd hoped to find more Ouija and less analysis, which a simple blurb exploration would've informed me was not to be. the first few pages were dazzling -- the tone, mesmerizing. Scott has always seemed giddy about The Changing Light at Sandover -- which I have never read. I hope it's not one of those books where he worked really hard on the opening passages and scribbled the rest. Fingers crossed.
