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James Merrill's National Book Award for Mirabell: Books of Number. It was Merrill's second National Book Award win in 12 years. Merrill gave the prize money to Hubbell Pierce, inventor of the bat wallpaper at 107 Water Street where many…

A chapbook, set and printed by Claude Fredericks and David Beekin. Printed by Banyan Press in an edition of 440. This is the section of Mirabell: Books of Number when 741 reveals the hierarchy of the arts and the spiritual meaning of homosexuality,…

Draft pages from Section P, which is an important section about power and apocalypse that foreshadows the revelations in Mirabell: Book of Numbers and Scripts for the Pageant.

During the March 29 and April 26, 1976 séances, higher powers (over Ephraim) began revealing the cosmology that Merrill would document in Mirabell: Books of Number and Scripts for the Pageant. It was during this time period, after finishing…

Program for the Thirtieth Annual National Book Awards, April 25, 1979. James Merrill was awarded the prize in poetry for Mirabell: Books of Number.

1979 National Book Award in Poetry citation for James Merrill’s Mirabell: Books of Numberby Elizabeth Bishop, Michael S. Harper, and Anthony Hecht.

Typescript draft of James Merrill's National Book Award for Mirabell: Books of Number acceptance speech, 1978.