[New-Poetry] Kleinzahler on Merrill

[Anny Ballardini]

What an exceptional way of introducing Merrill, no doubt Kleinzahler is a
poet. He would be able to make us drink down Bob's mathematikus as refined
early spring gently flowing lyricism!

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:10 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Kleinzahler-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin
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> Changing Light
>
> By AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
> Published: November 7, 2008
> The poetry of James Merrill is a good deal closer to a Haydn piano trio or
> Boccherini quintet than it is to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp." Like the
> 18th-century Galante style in music, Merrill's work has a high, almost
> lacquered finish and prizes the qualities of refinement, intricacy of design
> and formal containment. It is music for the court, for the knowledgeable and
> cultivated listener. At his best — in a handful of poems where he's most
> restrained and the emotional core of the work, however camouflaged or
> subdued, is most intense — Merrill has few peers, and none among
> contemporary ­poets working in meter and rhyme.
>
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