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Speakers at the demonstration, called "An Outing in Unity and Struggle," will represent the Black Law Students Association, women's rights groups, the Committee to Defend Sherman Holcombe, and the committee protesting the Afro Department's refusal to grant tenure to Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies...
...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...
...diversities of tone and mood, The Book of Ephraim refracts that gem. It is a tour de force and a major accomplishment...