"Always that same old story— Father Time and Mother Earth, A marriage on the rocks."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersPoets from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesPeople from New York CityGay poets
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"The Broken Home" (1966)
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James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.
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