The Book of EphraimBy: James Merrill For the first time in a stand alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they