Volume 27, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1981
Otherworldly Goods
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Scripts for the Pageant
by James Merrill
Atheneum, 235 pp., $12.95
Anyone who wants evidence that James Merrill has held on to his formidable gifts as a poet should look at a few sections of his recent books, Mirabell: Books of Number (1978) and Scripts for the Pageant. Merrill's versatility and inventiveness fill a description of the small town of Stonington, Connecticut, on Block Island Sound:
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