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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The first retrospective collection by Linda Gregg, one of the most
"impressive, generous, and wise of today's front-line poets." (Library Journal)
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Finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize
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.
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"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.
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"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
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Jessica Treadway seamlessly portrays the complexity of human experience
in the face of incomprehensible loss, revealing yet again why the New York Times Book Review has called her "a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth."
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The unpublished early poems of William Stafford now added to "a body of work that represents some of the finest poetry written during the second half of [the twentieth]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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“Wonderful…Revell’s unusual take makes this as much a warmhearted essay on metaphysics as a guidebook, which is likely to make any poetry lover stop and pay attention.” —Publishers Weekly
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Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.
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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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In The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self.
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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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“A pitch-perfect depiction of the reality of the artistic life.” —The Observer
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"Disturbing, elegant and powerful...[Lowenthal] has thrown down one
hell of a gauntlet. Disarmingly but beautifully, he's explored the
blurry line between selfless love and selfish lust." —The Washington Post
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"Not since Plath has poetry so taut and so dangerous graced a first book." —D.A. Powell
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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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"With their perfect sentences about the weather and the land and the
terse, necessary people who live on it, these may be some of the best
stories about such matters you've ever read." —Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"
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Finally, a gift book for those who hate gift books. No deep thoughts, touching anecdotes, or bits of wisdom here. Just smart, irreverent fun.
“Often bold and a touch arch, Paterson turns unexpectedly poignant at times, sometimes political…presenting something to return to on every page.”
—✩Publishers Weekly
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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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“Delving into the past, in this wonderful, singularly wry memoir, turns up enough guilt to go around for everyone. And yet, such is the honesty, humor and literary skill of Terese Svoboda that she manages to turn this sad story into a triumph of compassion and insight.” —Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay
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" The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY
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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
Click here to visit Martha Collins's web site
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"These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at is familiar New
England slant." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Scholar and writer Gerald Early has compiled an anthology of personal
essays from a wide-ranging group of fiction writers, poets and
academics about their own encounters with sports. The result is a rich
collection on topics as far-flung as rodeo riding, playing tennis in a
tornado and pool hustling." —Chicago Tribune
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"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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In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of
public consumption speak in the language of private devotion.
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A new kaleidoscope of poems by Albert Goldbarth, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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"This is a truly incredible novel about the scars of war that are left
on the hearts of a family living in exile. . . . A stunning, insightful
book that examines the tragedy of Lebanon—a window on the even greater
catastrophe of war itself." —The Sanford Herald
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