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James Merrill's notebook. Inscription on inside recto: "At first, snow fresh and white,Then all these dirty tracks - where leading?Heaven alone (and Stephen, your close reading)Kept the end in sight.Athens, Christmas 1975 - from JamesJames Merrill

Bound by Angela P. James (binder's stamp) in white calf, airbrushed gray, with multicolored onlays of airbrushed and painted leathers; spine has false raised bands covered with red and white polka-dotted leather; red and white silk headbands; red and…

Newspaper clipping of "The Avant-Garde Ex Post Facto" by Caryn James from The New York Times, April 9, 1988. James discusses Brown University's conference "Unspeakable Practices: A Three-Day Celebration of Iconoclastic American Fiction" attended by…

On August 9th, Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson. This documentary follows the next few days as protests grip the town of Ferguson, both during the day as organized rallies for justice, and at…

Among the James Merrill papers are numerous pages recording Merrill's attempts to fashion poetic lines from prescribed sets of letters. These combinatorial texts include several anagrams and variations on the names of celebrities, friends, and even…