Collected Poems
A American, Literature, Poetry book. The sky is realest: the sky cannotBe touched and in the mirror it cannotBe touched. He...
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity and wit, his intriguing images and paradoxes, shone with a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamour, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen and refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the twentieth century....
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The sky is realest: the sky cannotBe touched and in the mirror it cannotBe touched. He is enchanted. The rare azurIs flawless; happily blurred blue is no whitLess exquisite than blue unblurred. And whatHe misses he would never know was there. James Merrill, Collected Poems // Nor do I try to keep a garden, onlyAn avocado in a glass of water --Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later,When the small gilt leaves have grownFleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes,And start another. I am earth's no less. James Merrill, Collected Poems //
I've been dabbling in this book for a while now...Merrill is great, because not only is he deft with meter & rhyme, but he's a little weirder and more surreal than, say, Frost or Lowell. Check out "The Emerald." $3 at a MPLS public library sale. I find it sad that public libraries banish their low-circulating books, but such collections are for use, and I love bargains...
