A different person: a memoirA great American poet--winner of every major prize America can offer its poets, including the Pulitzer--opens his life to us in a memoir that puts wit, sensibility, and elegance of mind to the service of unflinching autobiographical truth. Photos. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictAs much a storyteller as a poet, Merrill, the Pulitzer Prize-winning heir to the Merrill-Lynch fortune, delights with this graceful account of a 30-month stay in Europe in the 1950s that was to become ... Read full review
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Decision to go abroad My dearest friend | 3 |
Tony puts one over on the French Visit | 16 |
With my father in Italy Dr Simeons | 30 |
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