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James Merrill''s new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each (''Morning Glory'' and ''A Room at the Heart of Things'' in Part I and ''Walks in Rome'' and ''Losing the Marbles'' in Part V). The central section, an arrangement of shorter poems and a bittersweet meditation written some years ago but not collected until now, is framed by the book''s most startling accomplishments. In Part II Merrill returns to the verse drama, a genre that he has not worked in since the 1950s, when ''The Bait'' was produced off-Broadway. ''The Image Maker'' is an exquisitely fashioned one-act play about a santero, a saint-maker, whose carved figures are objects of veneration and sources of power in his Caribbean village. The santero also practices santeria, the Latin American religion that syncretizes the Yoruba lore which the slaves brought with them from West Africa and the Catholicism im

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      Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
      Published 26 October 1988
      ISBN-13 9780679720492
      978-0679720492
      ISBN-10 0679720499

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      Book Synopsis
      James Merrill''s new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each (''Morning Glory'' and ''A Room at the Heart of Things'' in Part I and ''Walks in Rome'' and ''Losing the Marbles'' in Part V). The central section, an arrangement of shorter poems and a bittersweet meditation written some years ago but not collected until now, is framed by the book''s most startling accomplishments. In Part II Merrill returns to the verse drama, a genre that he has not worked in since the 1950s, when ''The Bait'' was produced off-Broadway. ''The Image Maker'' is an exquisitely fashioned one-act play about a santero, a saint-maker, whose carved figures are objects of veneration and sources of power in his Caribbean village. The santero also practices santeria, the Latin American religion that syncretizes the Yoruba lore which the slaves brought with them from West Africa and the Catholicism im

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