Dublin Core
Title
"Tony: Ending the Life"
Subject
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Description
"Tony: Ending the Life," published in A Scattering of Salts, is an "expansive elegy for his friend" (Tony Parigory, who died in summer 1993 of AIDS), "and (it is all but explicit) himself." Merrill had been largely silent about his AIDS diagnosis but it came out in his poetry. Included here are three of a total 61 manuscript pages.
Source
James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 139, Folder 3621
Relation
Series_IV_Manuscripts
Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 773-4
Identifier
Tony_Ending_The_Life_001.jpg
Tony_Ending_The_Life_002.jpg
Tony_Ending_The_Life_003.jpg
Rights Holder
Washington University in St. Louis