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- What is more important, he is constantly struggling with his mother's lack of acceptance of both his art and his homosexuality. Looking back 40 years later, he observes: "The miraculous gift of life we receive from our parents comes in a package almost impossible to unwrap; often it seems wiser not to try."
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Apr 14, 2015 · When the poet James Merrill (1926-1995) was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, his mother, Hellen, thought him tiny and ugly, even by newborn baby standards. James weighed only 5 pounds...
May 14, 2015 · His adult life got underway when he abandoned his mother’s Manhattan orbit in 1950 for Rome, where he began to forge his sexual and poetic identities.
Nov 17, 2015 · speaks French with a German accent: only in adulthood would Merrill learn that her mother was English, her father German, and she “only French by marriage.”…
Apr 6, 2015 · (On the day of Charlie Merrill’s death, James heard about it twice: once in a communiqué from his mother to him in Kyoto, Japan, where he was travelling, and again, later that day, from the...
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Merrill's parents married in 1925, the year before he was born; he would grow up with two older half siblings from his father's first marriage, Doris Merrill Magowan [4] and Charles E. Merrill, Jr. [1] As a boy, Merrill enjoyed a highly privileged upbringing in educational and economic terms.
Apr 6, 2021 · When he was 25 and traveling abroad, the poet James Merrill (1926-95) learned that his mother had destroyed letters he’d been sent from several different men, fearing that they presented...
He talks about the time when as a young child he was led by his dog to his mother’s bed-chamber. His mother was in bed and sleeping. But right at that moment she opened her eyes, got up and tried to grasp him.
