# James Merrill Poems

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- Authors: [James Merrill](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-merrill)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-03-02

## Description

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.

## Editions

### James Merrill Poems

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-808-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2017-03-02
- Language: en_GB