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"O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."—Poetry London "O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."—The Guardian "O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day."—Poetry Ireland Review Update, the final collection of work by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, weaves a memoir of his past...
| Автор | Dennis O'Driscoll |
– Marvin Bell one of the leading poets in America – long-time teacher at Iowa Writer’s Workshop, one of the country’s foremost writing programs – first poet laureate of Iowa (2000-2004) – Bell’s last book, Rampant, was very well reviewed, including cover feature in American Poetry Review and review in New York Times – includes several new “Dead Man” poems, for which Bell is both famous and infamous – most political book of Bell’s...
| Автор | Marvin Bell |
– Bass is co-author of million-seller Courage to Heal – Bass considered a pioneer in field of healing from child sexual abuse – Bass has a devoted following – The Human Line confronts many of the profound moral dilemmas of our time—all grounded in human-scale concerns – Bass is popular workshop leader and creative writing teacher – Bass poems have appeared in many national publications including The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., DoubleTake – Who can resist lines like: “A brain...
| Автор | Ellen Bass |
"An exquisite storyteller."—The Southern Review "David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." —Library Journal Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters practicing karate, and elderly parents, David...
| Автор | David Bottoms |
Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to travel across China and visit the graves of 36 Chinese poets. Porter's intention was to place himself within the landscapes where the poets lived and wrote, to translate representative poems, and to present a travel narrative for an American audience. When Porter arrives at a specific site – often with the aid of locals who know the terrain – he improvises rituals that involve small cups of American bourbon, incense, and reading poems aloud in Chinese....
| Автор | Red Pine |
The New Yorker profiled brothers Michael and Matthew Dickman in “Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets” (April 6, 2009) Both brothers’s poetry appear regularly in The New Yorker Natives of Portland, Oregon, the brothers logged many hours exploring Powell’s Books, where they acquired an obsession for contemporary poetry. They have a “poet family”—their mother’s step-sister is Sharon Olds, and they lived with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar on-and-off while undergraduates. They played two of the three...
| Автор | Michael Dickman |
Miller has been a mentor to hundreds of poets through her years as a teacher at University of Arizona. The Boston Book Review compares Jane Miller’s “careening, associative” verse to the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. All are inventive, energetic, and risky. Miller was originally a painter. She sees the processes of painting and writing as much the same, but she found herself unable to paint and write poetry at the same time, so she abandoned painting in favor of writing. W.S....
| Автор | Jane Miller |
"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."—Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: «Do not to try singing these poems. Only if you sit on them...
| Автор | Stonehouse |
“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book Review Punctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, and the memory to gather it all in. Jon Davis, author of...
| Автор | Jon Davis |
"Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."—The Seattle Times In his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering our final destination in «Beginner's Guide to Death.» "After the Point of No Return" After...
| Автор | David Wagoner |
"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."—The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." —Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle...
| Автор | Brenda Shaughnessy |
Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association. “Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London) “This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”—Booklist Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my...
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
“Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp…Only Shaughnessy’s kidding. Or she is and she isn’t. If you just want to boss people around, you’re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by a yeast that’s all too infrequent in...
| Автор | Brenda Shaughnessy |
"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."—Harvard Review "One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."—Booklist "Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."—Publishers Weekly Marvin Bell is one of America's great poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the «Dead Man» poems. The Dead Man is alive and dead at once:...
| Автор | Marvin Bell |
“This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry.”—Library Journal “Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review In Lisa Olstein’s daring new book, an unnamed lepidopterist—living in a hut on the edge of an unnamed...
| Автор | Lisa Olstein |
"Sherwin Bitsui's new poetry collection, Flood Song—a sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures—is well worth the ride."—Poets & Writers “Bitsui’s poetry is elegant, probative, and original. His vision connects worlds.”—New Mexico Magazine “His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work can be compellingly accessible.”—Arizona Daily Star ...
| Автор | Sherwin Bitsui |
"<strong>As seen in the <em>The New York Times</em> Book Review</strong> <p> ""In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation."" —<em>The New York Times</em> </p> <p> “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the...
| Автор | Matthew Zapruder |
• Received MFA from the University of Iowa • Author of over thirty books in various genres, including genre fiction, poetry, and criticism • Sold 100,000 with psychological thriller The Church of Dead Girls • Work has been translated into twenty languages • trained in journalism – a reporter for the Detroit News • fellowships from NEA and Guggenheim Foundation; winner of multiple Pushcart Prizes • two of his novels have...
| Автор | Stephen Dobyns |
Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers—now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling «correspondence» with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, and «Geo-Bestiary,»...
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen Is Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality to Taggart’s poetry, rooted in...
| Автор | John Taggart |
– Name another American poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with a limited edition replica of his car—“Dan Gerber’s 1965 Shelby R-Model.” (Sorry, 2250 models sold out at $90 a pop.) – Dan Gerber is an ordained Zen priest – Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison’s book Braided Creek (Copper Canyon, 2003) is dedicated to Gerber – Gerber’s last book of poems won the Foreword magazine “Best Book of the...
| Автор | Dan Gerber |
Focusing on figures such as Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf, and the World War One poets, <i>The Hardy Tree</i> examines power, oppression and individual rights in ways that reverberate through our lives today. Uniting these themes is the issue of communication—the various methods and codes we use to reach one another. The book is arranged in four sections. The first visits Vladimir Nabokov as a child with alphabet blocks, Alan Turing at eleven writing home from boarding...
| Автор | Linda Bierds |
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, «because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.» This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. ...
| Автор | Natalie Diaz |
"Had Dr. Dolittle fathered a prodigious daughter, she might well be behind the bizarre and entertaining personae found on the pages of Lindsay's first-book bestiary…Lindsay's dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging.... In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or...
| Автор | Sarah Lindsay |