Nights and Days: Poems

[vi], 56, [2] pp. A collection of two long poems (The Thousand and Second Night, and From the Cupola) and sixteen shorter poems by the American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with his work Divine Comedies. "A writer of elegance and wit, highly adept at wordplay and puns, Merrill was a master of traditional poetic meter and form who nevertheless produced significant quantities of free and blank verse."