Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter? offers another bold
and insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in
contemporary culture.
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Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream and editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell, explores “where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive” (Poetry).
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"Natasha Trethewey's book puts women's work, and, in particular, black
women's work, the hard unpretty background music of our survival, in
its proper perspective. For all her meticulous control and subtle
perception, this is a revolutionary book that cuts right through to the
deepest places in the soul." —Toi Derricotte
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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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“Like no other contemporary writer, Salvatore Scibona is heir to Saul Bellow, Graham Greene, and Virginia Woolf, and his masterful novel stands as proof of it. In The End, all the 'beautiful caves' of the characters’ pasts connect, and 'each comes to daylight at the present moment' in ways that leave one touched, surprised, and amazed.”
—ZZ Packer
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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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"John Haines is a master writer, as we have known for years. Now this
book reveals more: a range of intelligence and affection such that I
cannot imagine any reader being unmoved by them. It is a great and
splendid book." —Hayden Carruth
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"This book shows all the vital signs of genius. In Famous Builder
Paul Lisicky asks the tragic American question: who are you if you've
recreated yourself? And he answers it: you are alone, vulnerable, and
fully loaded." —Edmund White
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"This book shows all the vital signs of genius. In Famous Builder
Paul Lisicky asks the tragic American question: who are you if you've
recreated yourself? And he answers it: you are alone, vulnerable, and
fully loaded." —Edmund White
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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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“A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” —The Daily Telegraph
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"Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of
a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the
different ways people can connect." —Booklist
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"Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of
a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the
different ways people can connect." —Booklist
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In this wickedly funny novel, Percival Everett revisits the age-old Dionysos myth.
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