A Scattering of Salts
Author : James Ingram Merrill
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : James Ingram Merrill
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : James Ingram Merrill
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 1997-11-25
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ISBN : 9780517195109
The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of this, his last book of poems. "In these last poems, lucid, deft, fond, shrewd, faithful, Merrill once again reveals himself as our most visual poet, combining a superb eye with an unfailing ear."--Peter Davison, Boston Globe. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679765905
Presents a collection of poetry in which the author transforms autobiographical insights and experiences into profound meditations on life and the world around him.
Author : Reena Sastri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415955920
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400834325
Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780689112836
Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
Author : Mark Bitterman
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1607740885
A James Beard Award–winning field guide to artisan salts, with profiles of 80 varieties and 50 recipes that showcase the versatile ingredient. In Salted, Bitterman traces the mineral’s history, from humankind’s first salty bite to its use in modern industry to the resurgent interest in artisan salts. Featuring more than 50 recipes that showcase this versatile and marvelous ingredient, Salted also includes a field guide to artisan salts profiling 80 varieties and exploring their dazzling characters, unique stories, production methods, and uses in cooking; plus a quick-reference guide covering over 150 salts. Salting is one of the more ingrained habits in cooking, and according to Bitterman, all habits need to be questioned. He challenges you to think creatively about salting, promising that by understanding and mastering the principles behind it—and becoming familiar with the primary types of artisanal salts available—you will be better equipped to get the best results for your individual cooking style and personal taste. Whether he’s detailing the glistening staccato crunch of fleur de sel harvested from millennia-old Celtic saltmaking settlements in France or the brooding sizzle of forgotten rock salts transported by the Tauregs across the Sahara, Bitterman’s mission is to encourage us to explore the dazzling world of salt beyond the iodized curtain. Mark Bitterman is a man truly possessed by salt. As “selmelier” at The Meadow, the internationally recognized artisan-product boutique, Bitterman explains the promise and allure of salt to thousands of visitors from across the country who flock to his showstopping collection. “Salt can be a revelation,” he urges, “no food is more potent, more nutritionally essential, more universal, or more ancient. No other food displays salt’s crystalline beauty, is as varied, or as storied.” Winner – 2011 James Beard Cookbook Award – Reference & Scholarship Category IACP Cookbook Award Finalist in two categories
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0525520244
For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.
Author : Timothy Materer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801437601
"Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs also inspire Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
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An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.