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Pulitzer Prize winner and
former Poet Laureate
Richard Wilbur
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James Merrill: A Celebration of his Collected Poems
On April 12, an extraordinary gathering of friends and admirers
of poet James Merrill met in Johnson Chapel at Amherst College to celebrate the
publication of his Collected Poems.
Born in 1926, James Merrill graduated from Amherst College in
1947 and died in 1995. He taught English briefly at Amherst and lived in Stonington,
Connecticut, Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan (1946) through A
Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote 12 books of poems. He also published
two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) and The Bait (1960); two
novels, The Seraglio (1957) and The (Diblos) Notebook (1965); a
book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative (1986); and a memoir,
A Different Person (1993).
The Johnson Chapel event was sponsored by the Amherst College Department of English
and the Creative Writing Center.
For more details about Merrill and the event, read the press
release.
Audio Clips
"The Black Swan," "Fort Lauderdale"
and "The Emerald" are from James Merrill's Collected Poems, published
by Alfred A. Knopf and used by permission of the Literary Estate of James Merrill
at Washington University.
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