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Books by Christopher Merrill
  | | Self-Portrait with Dogwood by Christopher Merrill Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2017 by Trinity University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59534-809-8, ISBN: 1-59534-809-3 "In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree namedaccording to one writerbecause its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill began to compose a self-portrait alongside this tree whose lifespan is comparable to a human’s and that, from an early age, he’s regarded as a ..." |
 | | After The Fact Scripts & Postscripts by Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2016 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-935210-88-7, ISBN: 1-935210-88-2 ""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 friendship is drawn from imagination."—Stephen Kuusisto, author of Letters to Borges "The best conversationalists intuit and respond to uns ..." |
 | | Necessities(1st Edition) by Christopher Merrill Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2013 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-935210-46-7, ISBN: 1-935210-46-7 ""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. Influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers of ..." |
 | | The Tree of the Doves Ceremony, Expedition, War by Christopher Merrill Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-305-8, ISBN: 1-57131-305-2 "Taking several ageless questionsWhere do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?âas his point of departure, award-winning author Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perseâs epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in ..." |
 | | Only the Nails Remain(1st Edition) Scenes from the Balkan Wars by Christopher Merrill Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9820-2, ISBN: 0-8476-9820-3 "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 and personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia―Bosnia-Herz ..." |
 | | Things of the Hidden God Journey to the Holy Mountain by Christopher Merrill 300 Pages, Published 2016 by Wipf And Stock Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-9252-8, ISBN: 1-4982-9252-6 "... to say,” writes another divine associated with the Holy Mountain's revival, Archimandrite Vasileios of Stavronikita, “but of how to be silent, how to hear the Spirit speaking in our silence or our speech: the question is, how can we become instruments of the Spirit?" Like Father Joseph, Vasileios obeyed God within the solitude of a hermitage until, in 1968, he was called to become the abbot of Stavronikita, which had been deser ..." |
 | | Things of the Hidden God(1st Edition) Journey to the Holy Mountain by Christopher Merrill Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Random House Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-679-46305-4, ISBN: 0-679-46305-4 "“If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things.”So poet and journalist Christopher Merrill tells us near the beginning of this gripping account of the transforming pilgrimages he made to Mount Athos, in Greece, in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. “It was time for me to come to terms with th ..." |
 | | Flash Fiction International Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, Christopher Merrill Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34607-7, ISBN: 0-393-34607-2 "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 the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate i ..." |
 | | The Old Bridge(1st Edition) The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee by Christopher Merrill, Milkweed Editions Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1995 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-208-2, ISBN: 1-57131-208-0 "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. " |
 | | The Way to the Salt Marsh(1st Edition) A John Hay Reader by John Hay, Christopher Merrill Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1998 by Upne ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-864-1, ISBN: 0-87451-864-4 ""In common things are greater extensions of ourselves than we ever conceived of." "Life on earth springs from a collateral magic that we rarely consult," observes John Hay, naturalist, essayist, sage, and inveterate walker of byways. This collection from the 50-year long career of America's preeminent nature writer illustrates the full range of Hay's work. An elegant and lyrical stylist, he is, in Merrill's words, "the nature writer's w ..." |
 | | From the Faraway Nearby(Updated) Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon by Christopher Merrill, Ellen Bradbury Paperback, 303 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1834-3, ISBN: 0-8263-1834-7 "It has always been difficult to separate Georgia O'Keeffe's art and closely guarded life from the carefully guarded public image and powerful myths that grew around her. This collection of critical essays, memoirs, and poetry, first published in 1992 and now available only from UNM Press, offers a unique view of O'Keeffe, not only as an artist but as a cultural icon." |
 | | Four Questions of Melancholy(1st Edition) New & Selected Poems (Terra Incognita Series) by Tomaz Salamun, Christopher Merrill, Michael Biggins Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-877727-57-3, ISBN: 1-877727-57-1 "A graduate in art history from the University of Ljubljana, he worked as a conceptual artist before devoting his energy to poetry. Widely recognized as one of the leading Central European poets, he is the author of twenty-five collections of poetry, and his books have been ... Married to the painter Metka Krasovec, he is the father of two grown children, Ana and David. Salamun, who is Cultural Attache for the Republic of Slovenia, ..." |
 | | Journey to the Holy Mountain Meditations on Mount Athos by Christopher Merrill Hardcover, 346 Pages, Published 2004 by Harpercollins Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-711901-1, ISBN: 0-00-711901-1 "Centred around three journeys to Mount Athos, one of the most important places in Orthodox Christianity, this is both a beautifully nuanced travel book and a journey of self-discovery in a world beset by violence and fear." |
 | | The Psalms of David by Donald Sheehan, Christopher Merrill, Xenia Sheehan Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 2013 by Wipf & Stock Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-6512-6, ISBN: 1-4982-6512-X ""About the Contributor(s): Donald Sheehan (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison) began his long teaching career at the University of Chicago and concluded it at Dartmouth College. He served for twenty-seven years as Director of The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he created internationally acclaimed writing programs and inspired many contemporary poets. Becoming an Orthodox Christian in 1984, he studied, prayed, taught, ..." |
 | | Brilliant Water(1st Edition) by Christopher Merrill Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-893996-12-0, ISBN: 1-893996-12-3 "A striking new collection by a poet W. S. Merwin calls "gifted, audacious, and accomplished."A prolific journalist, Merrill's most recent work, two non-fiction books on the crisis in the Balkans, have received tremendous critical acclaim. With this collection, he returns for the first time in seven years to the form closest to his heart: poetry. "No anxiety of influence prevails here; nor is there evidence of a desire to follow any mode ..." |
 | | Only the Nails Remain(1st Edition) Scenes from the Balkan Wars by Christopher Merrill Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1686-1, ISBN: 0-7425-1686-5 "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 and personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia—Bosnia-Herz ..." |
 | | If My Tongue Refuses to Remain in My Mouth by Sunwoo Kim, Won-Chung Kim, Christopher Merrill Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 2018 by Autumn Hill Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9987400-1-0, ISBN: 0-9987400-1-2 "Sunwoo Kim’s debut collection of poems, If My Tongue Refuses to Remain in My Mouth, appeared in 2000, declaring in the boldest terms that at the outset of the new millennium she would bring to the page a radically different conception of poetry. Central to her work is the belief that in what Lao Tzu calls “the world of ten thousand things” the poet reveals the manifold ways in which one thing is connected to another, her poetic self-exp ..." |
 | | What Will Suffice(1st Edition) Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry by Christopher Buckley, Christopher Merrill, Christo Ley Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1995 by Gibbs Smith ISBN-13: 978-0-87905-692-6, ISBN: 0-87905-692-4 "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 her articles of faith. An ars poetica is also a barometer for the cultural climate of one's times, and what the "readings" contained in this ..." |
 | | From the Faraway Nearby(1st Edition) Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon by Christopher Merrill, Ellen Bradbury, Merrill /. Bradbury Paperback, Published 1993 by Addison-Wesley ISBN-13: 978-0-201-62476-2, ISBN: 0-201-62476-1 "Nearly everyone recognizes her paintings of flowers or desert bones, or knows some detail of her fascinating life, but it has always been difficult to separate O'Keeffe's art and life from her public image. Now comes a broad-ranging examination of her personal life and artistic legacy through memoirs, poetry, photographs, and essays." |
 | | The Worship Leader's Toolkit by Frank D. Jonez, Christopher Merrill, Cristopher Merrill Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2012 by Crosslink Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-936746-07-1, ISBN: 1-936746-07-7 "Gleaned from over 35 years of worship team experience, this book gives the church worship leader practical tips for mastering the elements of the Worship Leader role beyond the musicianship." |
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