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Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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James Merrill.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, we bring you James Merrill\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, in which he explains how he draws inspiration from a Ouija board; \u201cThe Plato Club,<\/a>\u201d a strange feature in which Merrill and David Jackson use a Ouija board to contact Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Jean Genet, and others; and \u201cTotem<\/a>,\u201d a poem by Eamon Grennan.<\/p>\n

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James Merrill, The Art of Poetry No. 31<\/a>
\nIssue no. 84 (Summer 1982)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

Does the Ouija board ever manifest maniacal tendencies? Do you ever feel yourself lost in its grip?<\/p>\n

MERRILL<\/p>\n

Oh, we\u2019ve been scared at times. A friend who sat with us at the board just once went on to have a pretty awful experience with some people out in Detroit. She was told to go west, and to sail on a certain freighter on a certain day, and the name of the island where she\u2019d meet her great-grandmother reincarnated as a Polynesian teenager who would guide her to a mountain cave where in turn an old man . . . and so forth. Luckily she collapsed before she ever made it to California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Plato Club<\/a>
\nBy David Jackson & James Merrill
\nIssue no. 122 (Spring 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea for the following feature evolved from an interview in which David Jackson reported that, using a Ouija board, he and the poet James Merrill had contacted Truman Capote in the afterlife, a place called the Hedge. The Hedge would seem to be a kind of semipermeable screen through which the dead can peer at human life as well as eavesdrop upon the affairs of higher heaven that only indirectly concern them. Presiding, as hostess and chief of protocol, is Alice B. Toklas. Since everyone wants to talk all at once, she decides\u2014as she did in Gertrude Stein\u2019s Parisian salon\u2014who should approach the tea table and in what order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Totem<\/a>
\nBy Eamon Grennan
\nIssue no. 101 (Winter 1986)<\/em><\/p>\n

All Saints\u2019 over, the roast seeds eaten, I set
\nOn a backporch post our sculpted pumpkin under the weather,
\nWarm still for November. Night and day it gapes
\nIn at us through the kitchen window, going soft
\nIn the head. Sleepwalker-slow, a black rash of ants
\nHarrows this hollowed globe, munching the pale peach
\nFlesh, sucking its seasoned last juices dry. In a
\nWeek, when the ants and humming flies are done, only
\nA hard remorseless light drills and tenants it through
\nAnd through. Within, then, it turns mouldblack
\nIn patches, stays like this for days while the weather
\nTakes it in its shifty arms: wide eyespaces shine, the
\nDisapproving mouth holds firm. Another week, a sad
\nLeap forward: sunk to one side so an eyesocket\u2019s almost
\nShut, it becomes a monster of its former self. Human \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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