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Title
"Self-Portrait in a Tyvek Windbreaker"
Subject
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Description
Holograph and typescript fragments toward and three full drafts of "Self-Portrait in a Tyvek Windbreaker." A play on John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," and published in A Scattering of Salts, it is one of the longest poems of Merrill's later years and one of the strongest from any phase of his career. "...it is concerned not with personal memory, but with the present and the future of our culture."
Source
James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 138, Folder 3537
Relation
Series_IV_Manuscripts
Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 749-51
Identifier
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Rights Holder
Washington University in St. Louis