"Voices from the Other World"

"Voices from the Other World"

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

"Voices from the Other World," published in The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, was James Merrill's first--and for many years, only--treatment of the Ouija board séances in a poem. Merrill's supernatural and domestic life with Jackson both enter his poetry here as subjects for the first time. Included here are two double-sided pages from a total of 27 draft pages, which show Merrill's fondness for doodling faces--especially female faces--as he composed poems.

Merrill, James

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 140, Folder 3656

Circa Fall 1955

Series_IV_Manuscripts

Exhibit Cases 3-4: Water Street

James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 169, 213-15

2 leaves. Recto and verso.

4 jpegs. 600 dpi.

English

Manuscript

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Washington University in St. Louis