
Description
“Graham’s poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have.” —New York Times
A startlingly original collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham
An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls “a mesmerizing voice,” Graham has been placed in the poetic lineage of such masters as T.S. Eliot and John Ashbery.
In Place, Graham explores the ways in which our imagination, intuition, and experience aid us in navigating a world moving towards its own annihilation and a political reality where the human person and its dignity are increasingly disposable. These poems seek out sites of wakeful resistance and achieved presence. From the natural world to human sensation, they investigate the reality and irreducible originality of our “inner landscapes.” They test the unstable “congeries” of the self, its ever-shifting vitality, and the creative tensions that inevitably exist within and between its interior and exterior life-particularly as these are shaped by language.
In an era where distrust and evasion of human experience and its attendant accountability are pervasive, Place calls us to re-inhabit and make full use of—and even rejoice in—a more responsive and responsible place of the human in the world.
Product Details
Publisher | Ecco |
Publish Date | April 24, 2012 |
Pages | 96 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780062190642 |
Dimensions | 9.3 X 7.4 X 0.2 inches | 5.1 pounds |
About the Author
Jorie Graham is the author of fourteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.
Reviews
"Graham is one of the finest poets writing today." — John Ashbery
“A recent profile of Graham in The New Yorker places her in the lineage of Eliot, Bishop, and Ashbery rather than William Carlos Williams or Robert Creeley, but it might be posited that her capacious talent now draws on all these examples: the bodiless virtuosity of formal mastery has met the flexibility and passion of the mind and eye at liberty. . . . Graham shows us a future direction in American poetry, and that future is a welcome place.” — Harvard Review
“Few poets address the predicament of the postmodern soul as rigorously or as intelligently as Graham.” — Publishers Weekly
“For two decades now, Graham’s poems have been exercising the major muscles in the throat of our language. If you haven’t been listening, I’m telling you there’s a new music out there.” — The Boston Book Review
“Graham is one of the most important living poets, and her control of her craft is undisputed.” — Library Journal
“Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems... A mesmerizing voice; one wants to hear a continuation.” — The New Yorker
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