Description:
"Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have." --New York Times
"One of the most important living poets."--Library Journal
Place is a new collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls "a mesmerizing voice" Graham is renowned for poetry that is startling, original, and deeply relevant, and has been placed in the poetic lineage of such masters as T.S. Eliot and John Ashbery. In Place, Graham explores the ways in which our imagination, intuition, and experience aid us in navigating a world moving towards its own annihilation and a political reality where the human person and its dignity are increasingly disposable.
Brief description:
Jorie Graham is the author of fourteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.
Review Quotes:
"A recent profile of Graham in The New Yorker places her in the lineage of Eliot, Bishop, and Ashbery rather than William Carlos Williams or Robert Creeley, but it might be posited that her capacious talent now draws on all these examples: the bodiless virtuosity of formal mastery has met the flexibility and passion of the mind and eye at liberty. . . . Graham shows us a future direction in American poetry, and that future is a welcome place." - Harvard Review
"Graham is one of the finest poets writing today." - John Ashbery
"Few poets address the predicament of the postmodern soul as rigorously or as intelligently as Graham." - Publishers Weekly
"For two decades now, Graham's poems have been exercising the major muscles in the throat of our language. If you haven't been listening, I'm telling you there's a new music out there." - The Boston Book Review
"Graham is one of the most important living poets, and her control of her craft is undisputed." - Library Journal
"Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems... A mesmerizing voice; one wants to hear a continuation." - The New Yorker