In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine
explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
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"An absolutely refreshing compound of playfulness and depth. . . .
There's no warmed-over theory on this menu, and no guilt casserole
either: it's an unabashedly spicy book. But if one is seduced into the
book by the wildness of its flavors, one finishes by loving its
substance." —Heather McHugh
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Winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets
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"A masterful memoir... Early Morning would be a rare and
exceptional book in any season, any year. Coming as it does in a time
of national crisis, it is needed in the same way victims of scurvy and
pellagra need vitamins." —Bloomsbury Review
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" Eat Quite Everything You See is, quite simply, a feast." —Alice Fulton
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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*
"Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart—the poems that make up Elegy break mine. These poems are astonishing—here is fierce, controlled abandon, here is one of our finest poets utterly in the moment, yet the moment is unbearable. “There is no waking from death,” Bang writes, and yet each of these poems is fully alive.” —Nick Flynn
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The remarkable discovery of Landis Everson, first winner of the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.
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The poems in Except by Nature are full of the riches and the
risks, the words and the contemplations of the earth, and the place of
the human within those realms." —Pattiann Rogers
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"This engaging book will delight and challenge readers of poetry, but
it also offers serious pleasure to anyone who loves language." —Mark Doty
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"Phillips is a poet unafraid to address the oldest lyric concerns: how
to sing the beloved, how to sing his passing, how to honor the unruly,
demanding ethic of love. His poems are acts of attention; their
exquisite observations render the world a space for epiphanic
encounter." —Chicago Tribune
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"These poems break open the heart, so we can weep in compassion for all
our lives. Fred Marchant teaches and awakens the soul. The reader will
finish Full Moon Boat an enlightened being." —Maxine Hong Kingston
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"Anyone who really wants to know the answer to the question,"Can poetry matter?"
will find that The Gods of Winter is full of answers." —Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor
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"The poems of Tomas Transtromer are points of entry 'upward into/the
depths' of an imagination, a spirit that is regeneratively inventive,
capacious, unillusioned, undaunted, admirable." —The New York Times Book Review
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A new and resplendent collection by Linda Gregg, whose poems “have the elegance
of Greek statuary and the good-humored poise of haiku.” —Poetry
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"Gioia deserves our praise for keeping the lyric impulse alive and well." —American Book Review
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Selected by the Poetry Foundation from more than 1,600 submissions, The King’s Question is the winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which recognizes an American poet over the age of fifty who has yet to publish a book of poetry.
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Albert Goldbarth's career-spanning signature style showcased in a new volume, his first retrospective in 14 years.
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The U.S. publication of the latest collection by Don Paterson, winner
of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and two-time winner of the T.S.
Eliot Prize
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"These are intelligent, perfectly honed poems...deliberately low-key,
exquisitely exact lyricism. Not one image thoughtlessly obtrudes." —Maxine Kumin
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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
“Self-dramatizing, brilliantly imaginative, wildly sad, they long, with romantic futility, to be heard, reveling and wallowing in the wide spaces of their privacy.”
—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
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“Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.” —C. K. Williams
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Selected by Sonia Sanchez as the 2005 winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, given to the best first collection by an African American poet.
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Now available in paperback!
Winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award, Vijay Seshadri’s extraordinary second
collection, The Long Meadow,
looks into and through our troubled world by means of a poetic
sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into
possibility.
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Look There introduces American readers to a vital new poet, whose depth and verve have earned her an international reputation.
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The Lyrics demonstrates why Fanny Howe is “one of the boldest lyric poets in the United States.” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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FORTHCOMING JUNE 2008
The new collection from poet Eamon Grennan, whose keen vision is “obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description.” ( The Irish Times)
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“The wondrous The Maverick Room, Ellis’s opus of sonic
site-specific artistry, reminds us of Ralph Ellison’s sampling of
Emerson’s observation that ‘geography is fate.’” —Michael Eric Dyson
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“Thank you Elizabeth Macklin for bringing to English readers the poetry of Kirmen Uribe written in the oldest European language. Macklin’s English, like Uribe’s Euskara is lyrical with a hard edge, sad and funny, rich in paradoxes. Uribe is a poet of consequence and Macklin has accomplished no small feat.”—Mark Kurlansky, author of The Basque History of the World
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"The Misunderstanding of Nature is a distinguished collection, one of the liveliest first books in years." —David Wojahn, Poetry
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*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award*
“Matthea Harvey's vision of America is spooky, apocalyptic, and beautiful: proof that there is wonder in even a dark time like ours.” —George Saunders
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