LETTERS FROM A POET: A CELEBRATION OF JAMES MERRILL Part 1 of 3 “James Merrill: A Man of Letters”

“Reading & Reminiscence”

Stephen Yenser, the co-editor of six volumes of James Merrill’s poetry including, most recently, The Book of Ephraim (Knopf, 2018), and Langdon Hammer, author of the first biography written about the poet, James Merrill: Life and Art (Knopf, 2015), read and elucidate selecte