In poems expressed as party invitations, birthday sentiments, holiday wishes, love notes, get-well cards, epithalamia, postcards, and accompaniments to gifts, James Merrill brought verse into everyday life. These occasionals commemorate stilled…
Photograph of the nominees for the 1971 National Book Award for Poetry, Mark Strand, May Swenson, Mona Van Duyn, W.S. Merwin, and Gregory Corso. Swenson was nominated for Iconographs.