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The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008
Jorie Graham
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Description for The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008
Paperback. The Selected Poems of one of America's most eminent poets. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the full range of her five most recent books, presenting European readers with a coherent and compelling body of work. The book complements her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field (1996), which selected work from her first five books. Here we follow her through the later environmental and political poems of Overlord, Sea Change and other collections. Her most recent book, P L A C E, was awarded the Forward Prize in 2012. Jorie Graham's ... Read more
Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the full range of her five most recent books, presenting European readers with a coherent and compelling body of work. The book complements her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field (1996), which selected work from her first five books. Here we follow her through the later environmental and political poems of Overlord, Sea Change and other collections. Her most recent book, P L A C E, was awarded the Forward Prize in 2012. Jorie Graham's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771940
SKU
V9781847771940
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About Jorie Graham
JORIE GRAHAM was born in New York in 1950. She grew up in Italy and studied at the Sorbonne, and at Columbia and Iowa Universities. A former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, she now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard ... Read more
Reviews for The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008
'One of the finest poets writing today.'
John Ashbery 'P L A C E was a happily unanimous choice for the judges. It is a challenging collection of unusual force and originality...'
Leonie Rushforth, Chair of the 2012 Forward Prize Judges
John Ashbery 'P L A C E was a happily unanimous choice for the judges. It is a challenging collection of unusual force and originality...'
Leonie Rushforth, Chair of the 2012 Forward Prize Judges