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Journal 16 captures the visit to the Mayo Clinic during which Merrill was tested for HIV and received the diagnosis of HIV positive. The entry includes haikus, some of which would appear in "Prose of Departure," a 14-part haibun poem.

The Yellow Pages cover mock-up for the paperback edition of this limited edition volume, which compiled uncollected poems composed between 1946 and 1971. The book was published in cloth (50 copies) and paperback editions (750-800 copies) by Temple…

Lawrentian, vol. 56 no. 1. This issue of the Amherst alumni magazine features a cover story on poetry entitled "The Uncertain Future of Poetry" that contains an interview with James Merrill.

Jim's Book, Charles Merrill's surprise gift for James Merrill for the Christmas of 1942. The book was privately printed and contained James Merrill's poetry and prose written while at Lawrenceville School.

North Star: A Book of Poems, a privately printed book (first edition, with only 1 printed copy) containing poems by James Merrill and Frederick Buechner dedicated to and donated to this collection by Gerrish Thurber. Merrill and Buechner made the…

The Black Swan, Kimon Friar's privately printed book of James Merrill's college poetry, probably at least partially financed by Merrill, himself. This copy inscribed to "Jonnie."

Achapbook published by Claude Fredericks, a poet, printer, playwright and teacher who had a romantic relationship with Merrill in the early 1950s, and who remained a lifelong friend. All but one of the nine poems in this collection were later…

"Violent Pastoral," here in a broadside printed by Laurence Scott, is a poem "set in a Greece of the mind." It's unclear whether Strato Mouflouzelis is the eagle and James Merrill the lamb, or vice versa.

See also photograph of Strato…

"The Poet: Private" in Saturday Review, featuring the poem "Yannina" and an interview with literary critic and good friend, David Kalstone. They discuss "Yannina," a poem about coming to terms with the past, and dedicated to Stephen Yenser. In the…

A chapbook, set and printed by Claude Fredericks and David Beekin. Printed by Banyan Press in an edition of 440. This is the section of Mirabell: Books of Number when 741 reveals the hierarchy of the arts and the spiritual meaning of homosexuality,…