Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After several decades of teasingly elaborate but increasingly personal short poems, James Merrill made his current, deservedly-high reputation with The Changing Light at Sandover, a "modern epic" in which Merrill and his lover chat via Ouija board with a plethora of heavenly spirits. For the last few years, Merrill has published almost no poetry: he has, instead, been writing A Different Person, a memoir of his postcollegiate years in postwar Europe. Digressions, meditations and flash-forward passages follow each of the new book's 21 chapters, intended, the poet says, as "reveries suitable for a pillow book, for gossip...