Dublin Core
Title
Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill
Subject
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Description
Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill. Merrill's face is bound as a result of Bell's Palsy, an episode recounted in "The Thousand and Second Night" (see also the manuscript pages for that poem).
"[Maria] was pert, pretty, small and sweet...and able to choose her friends. [Jimmy] adopted her as a mock mother, making himself small in her presence, as if he were her boy, her puppet."
Source
James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 200, Folder 25
Relation
Series_VI_Audiovisual
Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece
James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 308-9
Identifier
MSS083_VI-1-c_497.jpg