Consuming Myth

The Work of James Merrill

Stephen Yenser

    1. Backward-Looking Figures: A Recent Poem through Some Early Work
    2. Breaking And Entering: The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, Water Street, and The (Diblos) Notebook
    3. Double Burdens: Nights and Days
    4. At the Web's Heart: The Fire Screen and Braving the Elements
    5. The Fullness of Time: The Book of Ephraim
    6. The Nature of Mind: Mirabell's Books of Mumber
    7. The Names of God: Scripts for the Pageant and “Coda: The Higher Keys”
    8. A Shutter Opens: Late Settings and The Image Maker
    • Works By James Merrill
    • Notes
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
  • Cover: Consuming Myth
  • A photo of the author

Calvin Bedient

Stephen Yenser is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert LowellClos Camardon, a chapbook of poems.