The Changing Light at Sandover
by James Merrill
Buy on AmazonThe Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill (1926–1995). Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic epic, the poem was published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980, and as one volume "with a new coda" in 1982.
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"James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover is a modern-day Inferno that delights me more each time I return."
By the Book: Rita Dove · nytimes.com