James Merrill, Poet of the Ouija Board

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Another writer who used a Ouija board was poet James Merrill. After winning the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, Merrill admitted that he used a Ouija board while composing his seminal poem, "The Changing Light at Sandover." While using a Ouija board with friends in the 1950s, Merrill allegedly communicated with the spirits of writers Wallace Stevens and W.H. Auden, as well as his own father and the parents of a friend—and it was during these sessions that he composed the acclaimed poem.

In his April 13, 2015, article for The New Yorker, titled "Out of this World: James Merrill`s Supernatural Muse," Dan Chaisson writes: "As thousands of pages of transcripts from their sessions demonstrate, they entered the supernatural realm deeper than anyone of their intelligence and character had done for a long time, and they created something—a magnificent poem that makes us question what we think we know about the universe—unprecedented in contemporary poetry

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