"Her words, with their quiet, rapt force, their pensiveness and wit,
come to us from natural speech, from the Bible and hymns, from which
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"Written chiefly from time living in the Alaskan heartland, the
frontier of elements, weather, and survival figure prominently in these
poems. This is a collection of poetry that transcends its pages." —Harvard Review
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“Each of the four sections of this book is punctuated by Burt’s
brilliant version of a poem by Callimachus. Burt thereby casts an eerie
light on the American life that fills the rest of his book, as the
poems move from the endless deferral of adolescence (‘we will know who
we are once we have won’) to the plenitude and deprivations that
sustain adulthood. This is a masterly book by one of the most gifted
poets of his generation.” —Frank Bidart
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"The lyric sounding of human feeling against desire, the natural world
and religious striving has been reenvisioned by Phillips over three
books, including last year's NBA-finalist From the Devotions.
In this brilliant fourth collection, foreboding fields and roaming
creatures...continue to echo the sorrow, alienation and eros of bodily
existence." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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The poems in Eamon Grennan’s The Quick of It—each one without
title and compacted into ten taut lines—are rendered with exquisite
detail and reverence for the everyday elements of weather, landscape,
family, art, all sorts of questions.
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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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"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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"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
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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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"I love Sky Lounge. Mark Bibbins splices together idioms and
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that also resemble plays, explosive and evaporating, with no wrong
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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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“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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"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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The unillusioned and effervescent new collection by David
Rivard, whose poetry “leaves me with a desire to be permanently friends
with this mysterious kind of grace.” —Tomaz Salamun
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"Dorothea Tanning's verbal wizardry is a constant surprise, an abiding
delight, and readers who sit down to A Table of Content can expect to
stand up more strangely themselves. She wears her soul on her sleeve,
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Take Three is the first in an important annual series designed to launch the
work of new poets.
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"Featured in this welcome second volume in the series are collections
by three poets who have contributed to AGNI's biannual journal." —Publishers Weekly
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"If this series continues to find writers as interesting as these three, it will
make a significant contribution." —Boston Book Review
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"I consider Linda Gregg one of the best American poets, and I value the
neatness of design in her poems, as well as the energy of each line." —Czeslaw Milosz
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"Too Bright to See was one of the most important first books of poetry to have come out in the
last twenty-five years. Alma,
first published in its own volume two years after, has become its
necessary companion. It's a fine thing to have these two books back in
the world, the visible world, bound together, lucid and legible as they
are." —Lucie Brock-Broido
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"I am so happy for this exploration which digs deep into the cracks
between what we are and what we are supposed to be. Mr. Patterson, with
all his love for play and invention, never forgets the serious tug of
our painful history. Rather, he celebrates it by giving words to its
complex and brilliant evolution." —Toi Derricotte
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"Readers owe themselves the many pleasures to be found in this book;
Elizabeth Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem." —The New York Times Book Review
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A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by the author of the award-winning
The Anchorage.
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"[Lazic's] sexual frankness is breathtaking. I would think that she
would scare most Serbian men out of their wits. I hope American men are
tougher." —Carolyn Kizer
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“This fierce, blanched singing verse is exquisitely gathered by a fine ear: here is a poet who knows how to break her lines, how to warm her syntax, how to repeat and exhort, how to tilt and dangle.” —James Wood, London Review of Books
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