Familiar Spirits
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about".Template:Italic titleFamiliar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson is a memoir published in 2000 by American writer Alison Lurie.[1] In it, she recounts a friendship with a poet James Merrill and his life partner David Jackson which began in the 1950s.[2]Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Wikidata image Merrill and Jackson were both wealthy, well-educated men, who lived an openly gay life decades before that was common. The two men spent many years gathering Ouija board messages during séances, a fact of which Lurie was made aware of early on, and about which she never lost her early skepticism. For Merrill, the poetic result was a 560-page apocalyptic epic called The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), which is in a large measure transcribed from supernatural voices. In Familiar Spirits, Lurie attempts to provide several rational and mundane explanations for Merrill and Jackson's epiphanies and revelations.
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