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James Merrill reading "In Monument Valley" at the Women's Building at Washington University in St. Louis. Merrill was a writer-in-residence at Washington University during this time.

Cover of David Jackson: Scenes from His Life - a "lavish chapbook" James Merrill produced for Jackson's 70th birthday, containing fourteen of David's sketches and paintings from the 1950s to 70s - each image paired with a related passage from…

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,…

"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…

"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…

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…

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."

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…

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.

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.