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Born in 1926 / Died in 1995 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Jim's Book: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories, privately printed, 1942.
  • The Black Swan, Icarus (Athens, Greece), 1946.
  • First Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1951.
  • Short Stories, Banyan Press (Pawlet, VT), 1954.
  • The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, Knopf (New York, NY), 1959, revised edition, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Selected Poems, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1961.
  • Water Street, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1962.
  • Nights and Days, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1966.
  • The Fire Screen, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Braving the Elements, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1972.
  • Two Poems: From the Cupola and the Summer People, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1972.
  • Yannina, Phoenix Book Shop (New York, NY), 1973.
  • The Yellow Pages: 59 Poems, Temple Bar Bookshop (Cambridge, MA), 1974.
  • Divine Comedies (includes "The Book of Ephraim"; also see below), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1976.
  • Metamorphosis of 741, Banyan Press (Chicago, IL), 1977.
  • Mirabell: Books of Number (published as "Mirabell's Books of Number" in The Changing Light at Sandover; also see below), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Scripts for the Pageant (also see below), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1980.
  • The Changing Light at Sandover (contains "The Book of Ephraim," "Mirabell's Books of Number," "Scripts for the Pageant," and a new coda), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1982.
  • From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1982.
  • From the Cutting-Room Floor, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1983.
  • Late Settings, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1985.
  • The Inner Room, Knopf (New York, NY), 1988.
  • Selected Poems, 1946-1985, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
  • A Scattering of Salts, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker and Other Poems, Dedalus Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1995.
  • Collected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Selected Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.
PLAYS
  • The Immortal Husband (produced in New York, NY, 1955), published in Playbook, New Directions (New York, NY), 1956.
  • The Bait (produced in New York, NY, 1953), published in Artists Theatre, Grove (New York, NY), 1960.
  • The Image Maker: A Play in One Act, Sea Cliff Press (New York, NY), 1986.
OTHER
  • The Seraglio (novel), Knopf (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1987.
  • The (Diblos) Notebook (novel), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1965, reprinted, Dalkey Archive Press (Normal, IL), 1994.
  • Recitative: Prose (nonfiction), North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1986.
  • A Different Person: A Memoir (nonfiction), Knopf (New York, NY), 1993.
  • Collected Prose, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
Contributor to anthologies, including Poems on Poetry, edited by Robert Wallace and J. G. Taaffe, Dutton, 1965, Poems of Our Moment, edited by John Hollander, Pegasus, 1968, and New Yorker Book of Poems, Viking, 1970. Contributor to periodicals, including Hudson Review, andPoetry. Some of Merrill's poetry has been translated into Greek. Audio cassette of poetry, read by Merrill, released by Random Audio as part of its "The Voice of the Poet" series, 1999.