Necessities

by Christopher Merrill

"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. Merwin

Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935210467
• ISBN13: 9781935210467
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"