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Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough
discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and
emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism
and revelation.
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In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the
outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that
goes back to the rebellion on the slave schooner Amistad and to the
artists’ canvases of nineteenth-century America.
"I love these poems for their unbearable honesty. I love what these
poems say and I love the form in which they say it. Jason Shinder is
one of the finest of our new poets." —Gerald Stern
NEWS FROM GRAYWOLF PRESS:
Jason Shinder has received a 2007 Literature Fellowship from the NEA. This award encourages the production of new work by affording promising
writers the time and means to write. Each literature fellow receives a
$20,000 award.
"Gallagher, to her very great credit, has undertaken one of the most
daunting of poetic adventures: utilizing all the resources of language
to explore the nuances of feeling, the nature of the passage of time,
and, most intricately, the nature of language itself." —The Atlantic
Monthly
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The unpublished early poems of William Stafford now added to "a body of work that represents some of the finest poetry written during the second half of [the twentieth] century." (Library Journal) Edited and with an introduction by Fred Marchant.
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"In narratives sweetened by the lyric pulse and pierced through by
felicitous turns of irony, Alexander chronicles the world of 'black and
tan'. Race is present in her poems in the way that sex, class, age,
even weather are present in all of our lives." —Rita Dove, "Poets Choice," The Washington Post
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“Here is a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel, and the view is exhilarating…Jeffrey Yang speaks in tongues as if touched with a Pentecostal flame.—New York Times Book Review
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James Longenbach offers a provocative look at poetry in the newest addition to the Art of series, a series on writing that specializes in sharp-witted lucidity, edited by Charles Baxter.
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"Saskia Hamilton is not a quiet poet, just an extremely subtle and
fierce one. There is a quality of spiritual stubbornness and
astonishing resilience that courses through even her briefest
utterances...." —Jorie Graham
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"Inspired by Bellocq's Storyville portraits, Natasha Trethewey brings
to art a young 'octoroon', in 1912, gallant, dignified, undefeated in
her aspirations, yet barely able to breathe trapped and objectified in
the world of a New Orleans brothel. Hers—theirs—is a stunning
accomplishment." —Gail Mazur
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"Wild and wildly variable in verse, Rivard aims for energy, pleasure
and people getting it on. . . . Vivid notation on a bevy of
experiences—some quite common, some bizarre to begin with—making this
playground worth visiting." —Publishers Weekly
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"Spellbound within wax edifices beneath a honey rain, Flynn succinctly
and resonantly contrasts the dense and thrumming bee realm with our own
buzzing, bittersweet world of avid appetites and aggressions. longing,
and valor." —Booklist
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“Reading this clear-eyed, sorrowing, searching poem of witness, I feel gooseflesh, and I weep, for fear and for the truth of our U.S. racism, which goes on and goes on. I admire everything Martha Collins has written, and I feel she was born to write this book. I want to quietly thank her, and to quietly thank those to whose memory she dedicates this great work.”—Jean Valentine
"This is a smart, daring first book of poems. Driven by Smith's raging
desire of imagination, many of these often quiet poems describe
something that's not there with deft grammar reaching toward
possibility." —Listed as one of eight best poetry books in Black Issues Book Review
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“This book bridges a gap between an experimental
tradition in American poetry and an older high lyric tradition. This is some of
Bang’s best writing, and one of the most exciting books of the year.”
"No poet will read this book without learning something new about the
nuances of the craft, and no critic will read it without realizing the
need for such liveliness." —Library Journal
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"Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to
care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into
account." —World Literature Today
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Now available: The bilingual Spanish/English edition of the bestselling chapbook, Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
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"Like Powell's other books, this is startling, but this is startling in
a new way, toward its close sounding more like Richard Crashaw—with
its rich and elaborate religious imagery, its saintly foods and
fabrics—than a casual modern poet." —Thom Gunn
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"Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the
pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety,
originality, and historical range. Yet Coin of the Realm will also be
admired as a prose work that stands alone. Incisive essays on George
Herbert, the Psalms, the place of race and identity in habits of
perception and reading, and the author's growth as a writer are unified
by central questions of beauty and ethics that will be of interest to
anyone who cares about literature." —Susan Stewart
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