Linda Gregg’s abiding presence in American poetry for over thirty years is a testament to the longevity of art and the spirit.
New and Selected Poems for the first time collects the ongoing work of Gregg’s career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and more than twenty remarkable new poems.
“An elegiac aura of timelessness in her images.”
—POETRY
“The imagery is Aegean, the legacy of five years Gregg spent in Greece. She punctuates the poems with sea-gazing, descriptive gaps that force blankness on the mind; her oceans are as simple and numinous as Rothko's black paintings, ‘light by the shore, then dark farther out.’”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
PRAISE FOR LINDA GREGG:
“Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry. She helps us see how we can once again engage the sublime and the tremendous, in our polluted and corrupt time. Her subject is loss and separation and the intense search for redemption, which she is able to realize through a profoundly honest, and moving, language. She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America.”
—GERALD STERN
“[Gregg’s] poetry breaks and devours comforting sentiments, soothing language, elevated humbug, wishful thinking. . . . [Her poetry] menaces or devours not flesh and blood but cozy preconceptions.”
—THE WASHINGTON POST
“I have loved Linda Gregg’s poems since I first read them. They are original in the way that really matters: they speak clearly of their source. They are inseparable from the surprising, unrolling, eventful, pure current of their language, and they convey at once the pain of individual loss, a steady and utterly personal radiance.”
—W. S. MERWIN
“Linda Gregg continues to be the builder of beautiful contraptions, poems built steadfastly by real life, bright and stark, truths told tranquil in unblinding light.”
—LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO
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This book is made possible through a partnership with the College of Saint Benedict, and honors the legacy of S. Mariella Gable, a distinguished teacher at the college.
