Water Street

Item

Merrill, James. 1980. “Water Street”. Exhibit Cases 3-4: Water Street. [New York]: Atheneum, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/39819

Title: Water Street
Description: Water Street marks a turning point in James Merrill's writing; the book is "local and particular: it calls attention to where, and by implication how, the poet is living." Included here are the covers of two 1962 editions, with inscriptions and an inset poem, and the cover of a 1980 edition.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: Catalogued item: PS3525 E6645 W3 1962
Publisher: [New York]: Atheneum
Date: 1962, 1980
Relation: Exhibit cases 3-4: Water Street; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 251
Format: Book; 8 jpegs. 600 ppi
Language: English
Type: Book
Identifier: Merrill_Water_Street_c.4_cover.jpg
Merrill_water_street_c.4_poem_inscription.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_c.4_back.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_Cover.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_incription.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_back.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_1980_cover.jpg
Merrill_Water_Street_1980_back.jpg; PS3525 E6645 W3 1962
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Water Street - Publications

Media: Merrill_Water_Street_1980_back.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_1980_cover.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_c.4_back.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_c.4_cover.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_back.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_Cover.jpg; Merrill_water_street_c.4_poem_inscription.jpg; Merrill_Water_Street_c.5_incription.jpg