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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…

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.

James Merrill reads "The Blue Grotto" from The Sunken Garden in 1993.

James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University, 1968.

James Merrill reads "In Monument Valley" in the Women's Building at Washington University in St. Louis, 1971.

James Merrill reads "Ideas" on the audio program A MOVEABLE FEAST, hosted by Tom Vitale, c1991.

James Merrill reads "Days of 1964" in January Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, 1985.

James Merrill reads "Mandala" in the Women's Building at Washington University, 1971.

Audio recording of James Merrill reading "Pola Diva," (a translation of Alexandrian poet Ayoub Sinano) in Brown Hall at Washington University in Saint Louis, 1968.

James Merrill reads his poem "The Victor Dog" at Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State College in Erie, Pennsylvania.