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The retrospective collection by Eamon Grennan,
whose poetry “illuminates, clarifies, and directs our gaze toward what it is we
love but often overlook" (THE NEW YORKER)
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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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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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Poet Elizabeth Alexander captured the spirit of Barack Obama's historic inauguration on January 20, 2009 when she read the poem "Praise Song for the Day." Now you can own a beautifully-designed commemorative chapbook edition of Alexander's poem that challenges our citizens to "look to something better
down the road" and sing a "praise song for walking forward in that
light."
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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deprivation but capable of possessing grandeur, has found classic
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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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"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
The powerful influential last poems of an unsung master, now available again, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark Doty
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“The range and power of Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke’s language, as she recasts and reweaves the Greek idiom into forms that are powerful and new, has been compellingly captured by the translators in this volume.”
"Amazing images, amazing lines; that pity brings, that pain produces. I
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Hacker is doing a great service making them available to an American
readership." —Gerald Stern
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