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James Merrill reads his poem "Cornwall" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "Alessio and the Zinnias" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his six-part poem "The Ring Cycle" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads "The Pruned Tree" by Howard Moss (poetry editor of the New Yorker and friend of Merrill's) and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "Santo" from "The Changing Light at Sandover" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "164 East 72nd Street" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "An Upward Look" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "The Victor Dog" at Behrend College.

James Merrill reads from his piece "The Changing Light at Sandover," a poem based on his and David Jackson's experiences with their Ouija board seances, at the first James Merrill Symposium. He is accompanied here by Peter Hooten voicing the…

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, first published in 1959, contains poems written over an eight-year period, which "are a collection of symbols and epiphanies drawn from experience but set off from it in an ideal, timeless space, a…