Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centerpiece of this new volume by a former National Book Award winner and recipient of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry is The Book of Ephraim, a 90-page narrative poem. Merrill, 50, sets up a premise that gives him the latitude of Dante and the eternity of Scheherazade. He claims that in 1955 he and a companion made contact-via a Ouija board-with the spirit of Ephraim, a Greek Jew born in A.D. 8 who was also, in a second incarnation, a favorite of the Emperor Tiberius. As a cup moves among the capital letters on the board, Ephraim...
Through this aperture into the occult, the reader views a tapestry as large and ornate as any to be found in recent poetry. Merrill's allusions are often recondite. But his loving attention to brilliant surfaces outdazzles difficulties. The Book of Ephraim crackles with...
...spirit Ephraim brings his pupils good news about the cosmic dance of souls, though he warns that if the world is destroyed, heaven would vanish. The same Keatsian reverence for earthly pleasures pervades Merrill's poem. Words are to be cherished because they open magic casements...
...have read with interest your article "EEOC Investigates Racism in Isaac Tenure Case" (April 17, 1976). Your implication that Ephraim Isaac is seeking personal redress is not accurate, and you are mistaken to assume that the issue is just one of Professor Isaac's personal grievances. Peter Hardie The Committee to Support Ephraim Isaac for Tenure and to Defend the Afro-American Studies Department
...items in Saturday's Crimson (April 17th) deserve comment. First, the report that Ephraim Isaac seeks redress of denial of tenure in Afro-American Studies Department seems curious, for Mr. Isaac is neither a female nor a black American and thus is not a legitimate applicant for redress through the proceedings of the EEOC. And it surely cannot be his claim that Harvard discriminates against foreigners...