HA HA YR SOUL

7 SESSIONS | 17 HOURS  James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover is an epic masterwork written with– or through– a Ouija board– but also written with–by the grace and virtues of– and through–  domestic love, friendship, and affectionate curiosity as medium.   Invisible College dove into this poem during the summer of 2024. Very readable, VERY gay, and tons of fun-- the poem contains fascinating information – sometimes disturbing information– about the structure of Being, the hierarchies of heaven, the Earthly story of birth and death, and the role of the Poet in the destiny of the universe. Merrill was a Pisces-- born on my mom's (and Alexander Graham Bell's, Naomi Fry's, and Tracy Anderson's) birthday-- and The Changing Light at Sandover was composed by the seashores of Mystic Connecticut and Key West. I used to dismiss him as some rich formalist from whom what could I possibly need to learn??? Until a mystical breakdown in 2012 (can't make this shit up) led me to this poem–