Christopher D Merrill

The Grace of Incorruption: The Selected Essays of Donald Sheehan on Orthodox Faith and Poetics

Professor of literature, scholar, teacher of poets and poetry, convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church, man of prayer, Donald Sheehan wrote these wide-ranging essays with a common commitment to understanding the ways in which the ruining oppositions of our experience can be held within the discipline...

What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry

A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the world. Nowhere is that vision more on display than in an ars poetica, which is where a poet takes stock, writing down his or ...

Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary (Iowa Whitman Series)

This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself.One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, s...

The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee

A critical look at the growing problem of refugees examines the case of the former Yugoslavia, where the author witnessed the efforts of peacekeepers, humanitarian workers, and government leaders to deal with the desperate plight of thousands of people. Original. IP.

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written an...

Necessities

"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."—W. S. MerwinNecessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. ...

Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to t...

After The Fact: Scripts & Postscripts

"Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy. With these rich and conversant prose poems, Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill return spoken language to sport—sometimes competitive, but often cooperative, exploratory, even humanely probative. What is a friend? Bell and Merrill demonstrate...

From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keefe As Icon

Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain

The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer

The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars

From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe As Icon

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars

The Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader