An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry
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"To leave Rainy Lake is to be left with 'the lingering smell of lake
water,' the haunting memory of a real girl struggling to come of age
against the backdrop of the 60's, racism and Viet Nam." —Sandra Benitez
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“Birkerts on reading fiction is like M.F.K. Fisher on eating or Norman Maclean on fly casting. He makes you want to go do it.” —Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker
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"Funny, arch, acerbic, and humanistic, Birkerts's essays remind us that
the ability to give ourselves over to writing that requires
contemplation has not yet vanished." —San Francisco Bay Guardian
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In these taut, illuminating essays, Tony Hoagland explores matters of poetic craft—metaphor, tone, rhetorical and compositional strategies—in a buoyant conversational style less that of the scholar than of the serious enthusiast and practitioner.
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“Dialogic, atmospheric, a situation plumbed rather than a plot
unfolded—a Chicago noir this is and it casts its spell.” —E. L. Doctorow
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Three important poetry collections by Harryette Mullen brought together under one cover
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"The best poems in this book are like looking at a great John Ford
film: something elemental within American experience, something born in
deprivation but capable of possessing grandeur, has found classic
expression. See (perhaps best of all) 'Among Things Held at Arm's
Length.' Mary Leader's book beautifully and eloquently recovers a world
in the act of discovering her distance from it." —Frank Bidart
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“I admire the work of Benjamin Percy for its sheer ferocity and compassion, for its deep empathy for people at the hard edges of rage and grief and fear. The stories in Refresh, Refresh are big-hearted and drunk and dangerous, and there’s a heightened, unnerving vibe as you travel through Percy’s world. You never know where you will end up at the close of a Percy story, but you can be sure that he’ll actually take you somewhere.” —Dan Chaon
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"Whether he is describing the flight of swifts over Dublin, the sight
of his children in yellow macs climbing over cliff rocks, or his
passage through 'a bright bead-curtain of rain,' Grennan is a writer of
plainspoken reverence. " —The New Yorker
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The marriage of science and poetry: 18th century medicine and the mystery of the female body.
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Ron Carlson, "a master of the short story" (Booklist), shares the secrets of how to write a book.
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"The blinding intesity of Ms. Gregg's lines stains the reader's psyche the way
lightning or heartache do." —Joseph Brodsky
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"So much happens in their small, hard shapes: wit, sorrow, and an
intelligence that nips and worries its subjects into giving up their
full oddity and originality. A reader does not consume this poetry. She
is, instead, pinched and prodded towards revelation. Each neat poem is
a Pandora's box full of wonderful troubles." —Lynn Emanuel
Click here to visit Matthea Harvey's web site
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The Saddest Pleasure tells the story of Thomsen's desperate
departure from Ecuador at the age of sixty-three and his soul-seraching
journey through the Brazil and the Amazon river.
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“Literature that is truly world-class.” —Los Angeles Times
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" Sea Dogs is casual and deft, as if the stories were handed over by a
brilliant friend who has nothing to prove but has seen it all.
Smashing. Bensko has gone to a whole new mode of storytelling." —Barry
Hannah
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"Visionary but dry-eyed, David Daniel is one of the purest and most powerful
lyric
poets of his generation." —Tom Sleigh
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"Amazing images, amazing lines; that pity brings, that pain produces. I
have huge admiration for these poems—and these translations. Marilyn
Hacker is doing a great service making them available to an American
readership." —Gerald Stern
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“With sublime restraint and subtle modulation, Solstad conveys an entire age of sorrow and loss.” —Publishers Weekly
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"I love Sky Lounge. Mark Bibbins splices together idioms and
idiolects into cool, smooth, transporting lyrics—compact monologues
that also resemble plays, explosive and evaporating, with no wrong
moves, and with a welcome surplus of charm." —Wayne Koestenbaum
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“Hagy crafts first-rate prose—unsparingly raw and visceral with flashes of high lyricism—that carries the reader from the napalmed mountains of Korea to the vast pastures of the west.” —Publishers Weekly
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"Eamon Grennan's writing brings us over and over again to the discovery of what
is naturally so and had passed unrecognized." —W.S. Merwin
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"These poems are expeditions, seeking out alternative ways to love:
Plath without the angst and equally memorable." —Library Journal
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"This is an astonishing book. I know of no other opera survey in
English (or any other language) tossed off with such exuberant verbal
virtuosity." —The New York Times Book Review
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"An unlikely, powerful blending of lyricism with straightforward
descriptions of cruelty. . . . A rare record of one Southeast Asian
among the anonymous millions who lived to tell the tale." —The New York Times Book Review
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“Oswald emerges as an inheritor of some of Britain’s greatest poetic voices, an heir to Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.” —The Times (London)
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"Such a life may not be possible again. So it is good that a writer of
Mr. Haines's rare vision and poetic eloquence lived this life, and good
that he has shared it." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Eamon Grennan is in love with language the way a poet should be. I read him
with care—and admiration." —Gerald Stern
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“Stump makes you feel that you are reading on the edge of a life in a fierce gale, vulnerable, excited, alive.”—The Guardian
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