Jorie Graham, Author . Ecco $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-008471-4
The forebodingly absolute title of Graham's ninth collection does not set the tone for all of this book's 27 lyrics, which range over "starlings starting up ladderings of chatter"; an "Editor" and a "Speaking subject"
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Jorie Graham, Author . Ecco $22.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-074565-3
The title for Graham's best book in at least a decade introduces several obsessions at once: it's the code name for American plans on D-Day, a sign for the absence—or perhaps presence—of an omnipotent God, and a term for arrogant
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Jorie Graham, Author . Ecco $23.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-06-153717-2
Graham’s 11th collection contains what might be her most urgent and impassioned writing to date. These 19 poems continue Overlord
’s (2005) meditation on current political and social crises, but the relative composure and...
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Jorie Graham, Author Ecco $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88001-438-0
Graham's complex, faceted poems glint powerfully with compressed energy and suggest another meaning for the term atmospheric pressure. Her rendering of experience yields a dense, layered vision in which simplicity is rarely found and conclusions are
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Jorie Graham, Author Ecco $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88001-528-8
Few poets address the predicament of the postmodern soul as rigorously or as intelligently as Graham. Without a dominant (or at least coherently integrated) set of cultural beliefs to unpack, rebel against or discard, Graham is forced into ""errancy,
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Jorie Graham, Author Ecco $23 (128p) ISBN 978-0-88001-695-7
If Graham's last book, The Errancy (1997), was a self-consciously Eliotic attempt to find moral structure that came up frustrated, then Swarm is the plague that follows. And if the previous book was watched over by the many angels of its titles,...
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Jorie Graham. Ecco, $15.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-219064-2
Graham’s 12th book continues in the strong vein of her recent politically and environmentally concerned collections (Overlord and Sea Change), but adds a powerful thread about a parent’s apprehension that her child has grown and is inheriting the (br
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Jorie Graham. Ecco, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-231540-3
Graham’s second selected volume comes two decades after 1995’s Pulitzer-winning The Dream of the Unified Field and offers a well-curated representation of that period and her subsequent six books, along with four new poems. In culling from 11...
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Jorie Graham, Author, David Lehman, Editor Collier Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-032785-1
Now in its third year, this series again showcases the dizzying vitality of celebrated and little-known American poets. Graham ( The End of Beauty ) salutes work that is singularly American in its ``signature ambition'': ``both to happen fast and...
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Jorie Graham. Ecco, $25.99 (104p) ISBN 978-0-06-266348-1
Graham more fully explores the new direction she hinted at in her 2015 selected volume, From the New World: poems that are frantic, syntactically and formally restless, shifting from long-lined stanzas to prose blocks to short, single lines. Those...
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Jorie Graham. Ecco, $26.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-0630-3670-3
Graham (Fast) begins her fifth decade of publishing with a bravura performance that probes the present for what the future will bring. In four sections of long-lined poems, many of which run two-to-four pages in length, moments that are seen, felt,...
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Jorie Graham. Copper Canyon, $25 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-55659-677-3
Graham ([To] The Last [Be] Human) stuns with this end-of-life-as-we-know-it guide for those who may need to prepare for the last, ethereal blows; “The earth says/ it is time. Everyone checks their watch./ Your destination is in sight. Be/ ready....
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Jorie Graham. Copper Canyon, $22 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-55659-660-5
Collecting Graham’s four stellar eco-poetic volumes, this searing and sensitive portrait of environmental contingency is as formally ambitious as it is captivating and wise. As Robert Macfarlane aptly writes in his beautiful introduction, the task...
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