Volume 42, Number 5 · March 23, 1995
On James Merrill (1926–1995)
By Alison Lurie
James Merrill was an original supporter of The New York Review, and an occasional contributor. He published many poems here as well as pieces on Cavafy, Francis Ponge, and Elizabeth Bishop. There was also a wonderful essay, 'Japan: Prose of Departure'—a travelogue that flows effortlessly into and out of a series of haiku and thoughts of a dying friend in New York.
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