Knopf, paperback
Publication Date: August 02, 2011
Publisher Marketing:
A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill's most famous and celebrated work. This dazzling epic poem remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years starting in 1976.
"An astonishing performance . . . As near to [a masterpiece] as anything that American poetry has produced in the last two or three decades." -- The New York Review of Books
"James Merrill has created a poem as central to our generation as The Waste Land was to the one before." --The New Leader
"In turns comic, elegiac, and darkly prophetic, Sandover is as ambitious in scope as it is audacious in concept . . . combining an epic intent with dramatic and lyric meanings and means. The result may be the greatest long poem an American has yet produced." -- Newsweek
