Collected Poems

"As early as 1972, in a review of Merrill's RRAVING THE ELEMENTS,critic Helen Vendler defined the expectations his work had summoned up in what has become one of the most oft-quoted characterizations of it:
'The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively long for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life--under whatever terms of difference--makes you wish for news of yourself, for those authentic tidings of invisible things . . . that only come in the interpretation of life voiced by poetry.' Now, with the publication of Merrill's "Collected Poems," we can finally see, at 888 pages... how strange and momentous that news of ourselves was and is."Merrill, James is the author of 'Collected Poems' with ISBN 9780375411397 and ISBN 0375411399.