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Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

By: Aaron Poochigian

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Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

By: Aaron Poochigian

Aaron Poochigian’s prizewinning second collection of poetry, Manhattanite, is by turns frenzied and focused. It examines New York’s juxtaposed symbols of towering achievement and monumental desolation, and then traverses the country to California’s Central Valley, where the poet reclaims his grandparents’ home. Poochigian consistently entertains, whether his theme is lamentation or celebration—a grizzled urban pigeon (scavenging for “the sort of faith/ that holds for here and now and vibes like song”) or an Ohio wind turbine (an “ungatherable/ iron flower” seen “juggling . . . / three arms’ worth/ of gale-force wind”). Manhattanite is, deservedly, the winner of the 2016 Able Muse Book Award. PRAISE FOR MANHATTANITE: In Manhattanite, Aaron Poochigian takes on the role of American flâneur for the twenty-first century, drifting through the frenetic metropolis at a dreamer’s planetary pace. This collection is a celebration of exuberant melancholy, or melancholy exuberance, slick lyric cum urbane pastoral. —A. E. Stallings (from the foreword), 2016 Able Muse Book Award judge Manhattanite gives us the Manhattan of speed chess players in the park, tipsy tipplers tipping off the rooftops, the night sky bright with city light, tenants, tenements and supers. Aaron Poochigian is the poet in New York seeking a holy aura in the song of gunshots and spiral sirens, picking like a grizzled pigeon through stray newspapers, bottles, bags, and candy wrappers for a scrap of religion. Each poem is a tower growing out of our human filth and scraping the sky with sky-lines, and together they build a city of words. Put New York in your pocket. It’s inside this book. —Tony Barnstone Reading Aaron Poochigian’s Manhattanite is a dynamic, kinetic experience. These poems travel at a fast clip, pulling you along through cityscapes, wastelands, and other vistas. Some of the poems tunnel downward, plumbing depths of mood and memory. Whichever way they move, Poochigian’s poems perform with such panache and brio that it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry. I’d say do both—and keep reading. But be warned: this isn’t a feel-good book. It’s a fearless book. —Rachel Hadas Thoreau once boasted that he had traveled widely in Concord; Aaron Poochigian’s title indicates that he has traveled widely elsewhere—in the one borough worth experiencing, through western deserts, aboard “an ultra-modern train/ lisping through French or German woods,” and in a Paris of naked bulbs and seedy cabarets. In all of these settings, he deftly choreographs his cast of nameless characters. The concluding lines of “Song: Go and Do It” claim, “I’ll still swear/ we could be happy anywhere.” One sure location of that “anywhere” exists between the covers of Manhattanite. —R. S. Gwynn

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The Cosmic Purr

Poems

By: Aaron Poochigian

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The Cosmic Purr

Poems

By: Aaron Poochigian

The first collection of original poetry from Poochigian, well-known for his translations of Sappho, Aeschylus, Aratus, and Apollonius of Rhodes, is enlightened by uncommonly fresh wisdom and deployed in the delightfully masterful, elegant, and naturally flowing metrical forms his translations are known for.

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The Cosmic Purr

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By: Aaron Poochigian

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Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

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Manhattanite

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Manhattanite

By: Aaron Poochigian

Manhattanite, winner of the 2016 Able Muse Book Award, explores, interrogates, or strives within a New York experience shaded with challenge and menace, or illumed with magnificence. It may quest for "a cosmic cause" or for "faith/ that holds for here and now." And here and there, it bursts into song of celebration, love or lamentation.

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1927409926

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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho

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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.

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Book's by Aaron Poochigian

Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

The Cosmic Purr

The Cosmic Purr

The Cosmic Purr

The Cosmic Purr

Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

Manhattanite

Manhattanite

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

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