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Sea Change

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

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“Jorie Graham’s status as a canonic poet – of the academic breed, with a flair for blending the intellectual and the sensual – is virtually guaranteed.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Sea Change is among Graham’s most powerful books.” — Time Out New York “Here, the interconnectedness of all life isn’t just a spiritual commonplace, it is grounds for a call to action, and one that Graham – a poet of rare responsiveness to the natural world and a thinker of great ethical responsibility – is uniquely qualified to make.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Stunning... Forthright, compassionate and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty... Graham writes with breathtaking precision.” — Booklist (starred review) “[Never] shows Graham to be a most formidable nature poet.” — Publishers Weekly “Graham is one of the most important living poets, and her control of her craft is undisputed.” — Library Journal “[Never] declares that the artistic task of becoming, once begun, continues on.” — New York Times Book Review “Graham confronts modern wickedness torture and global warming are two themes in lush, sometimes hymnlike verse, A-.” — Entertainment Weekly “Jorie Graham’s intricate, sophisticated, and mercurial poems have long been one of the splendors of contemporary American literature. In her latest book, she turns her attention to death, and the result is perhaps her finest collection yet.” — Village Voice

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0061873160

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9780061873164

To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

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To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe—in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do. Jorie Graham’s fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040, opens in question punctuated as fact: “Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map.” In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant “the American experiment will end in 2030.” Graham shows us our potentially inevitable future soundtracked by sirens among industrial ruins, contemplating the loss of those who inhabited and named them. In sparse lines that move with cinematic precision, these poems pan from overhead views of reshaped shorelines to close-ups of a worm burrowing through earth. Here, we linger, climate crisis on hold, as Graham asks us to sit silently, to hear soil breathe. An urgent open letter to the future, with a habit of looking back, To 2040 is narrated by a speaker who reflects on her own mortality—in the glass window of a radiotherapy room, in the first “claw full of hair” placed gently on a green shower ledge. In poems that look to 2040 as both future and event-horizon, we leave the collection warned, infinitely wiser, and yet more attentively on edge. “Inhale. / Are you still there / the sun says to me.” And, from the title poem, “what was yr message, what were u meant to / pass on?”

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Copper Canyon Press

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1619322692

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9781619322691

Fast

Poems

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Fast

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

The latest collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham “A fascinating mosaic that explores what it means to live and die at a time when technology is redefining our existence......moving...[an] important book.” (The Washington Post) In her first new collection in five years—her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive to date—Jorie Graham explores the limits of the human and the uneasy seductions of the post-human. Conjuring an array of voices and perspectives—from bots to the holy shroud, to the ocean floor, to a medium transmitting from beyond the grave—these poems give urgent form to the ever-increasing pace of transformation of our planet and ourselves. As it navigates cyber life; 3D printed “life”; life after death; and biologically, chemically, and electronically modified life, Fast lights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink.

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0062663496

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9780062663498

[To] The Last [Be] Human

By: Jorie Graham

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[To] The Last [Be] Human

By: Jorie Graham

[To] The Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books—Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway—by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric record of those eighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming Anthropocene journal, written from within the New Climatic Regime (as Bruno Latour names the present), rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience … Graham’s poems are turned to face our planet’s deep-time future, and their shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But they are made of more durable materials than granite and concrete, they are very far from passive, and their tasks are of record as well as warning: to preserve what it has felt like to be a human in these accelerated years when ‘the future / takes shape / too quickly,’ when we are entering ‘a time / beyond belief.’ They know, these poems, and what they tell is precise to their form…. Sometimes they are made of ragged, hurting, hurtling, and body-fleeing language; other times they celebrate the sheer, shocking, heart-stopping gift of the given world, seeing light, tree, sea, skin, and star as a ‘whirling robe humming with firstness,’ there to ‘greet you if you eye-up.’ I know not to mistake the pleasures of this poetry for presentist consolation; the situation has moved far beyond that: ‘Wind would be nice but / it’s only us shaking.’ … To read these four twenty-first-century books together in a single volume is to experience vastly complex patterns forming and reforming in mind, eye, and ear. These poems sing within themselves, between one another, and across collections, and the song that joins them all is uttered simply in the first lines of the last poem of the last book: The earth said remember me. The earth said don’t let go, said it one day when I was accidentally listening…

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1619322595

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Swarm

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

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Swarm

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

T S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery -- and Jorie Graham. The New Yorker places Ms. Graham in this distinguished line of poets, heralding the Pulitzer Prize winner as a profound voice in American poetry. Now, in her eighth collection, she further enhances her reputation with a book-length sequence of verse that is a stunning work of grandeur. The New Republic writes, "for 'swarm,' in other words...read 'be born again.' Graham is writing about a spiritual turning point, a new beginning.... Beauty -- that is, the pure sense-perception which has long been a concern for Graham -- is no longer the most important criterion. Now goodness is...[and] the idea of submission, of obedience, without understanding: one must 'yield' before 'hearing the reason' for yielding.

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Harper Collins

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0062105892

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9780062105899

From the New World

Poems 1976-2014

By: Jorie Graham

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From the New World

Poems 1976-2014

By: Jorie Graham

An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham. The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.” In 1996, her volume of poetry selected from her first five books, Dream of a Unified Field, won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, twenty years later, Graham returns with a new selection, this time from eleven volumes, including previously unpublished work, which, in its breathtaking overview, illuminates of the development of her remarkable poetry thus far. In From the New World—Poems 1976-2014, we can witness the unfolding of Graham’s signature ethical and eco-political concerns, as well as her deft exploration of mythology, history, love and, increasingly, love of the world in a time of crisis. As the work evolves, the depth of compassion grows—gradually transforming, widening and expanding her extraordinary formal resources and her inimitable style. These pages present a brilliant portrait one of the major voices of American contemporary poetry. As critic Calvin Bedient says, “If Graham has proved oversized as a poet in the field of contemporary poetry, it is because she continually recalls the great Western tradition of philosophical and religious inquiry . . . tenaciously thinking and feeling her way through layer after layer of perception, like no poet before her.”

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Ecco

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0062315447

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9780062315441

Runaway

New Poems

By: Jorie Graham

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Runaway

New Poems

By: Jorie Graham

“Every new book by Jorie Graham is worth reading. . . . Frustrating, frustrated, afraid, panicked, pleading, Graham has once again written the poems of our moment.” — NPR.org "This engaging, evocative collection from Graham explores the experience of struggle in a rapidly-changing world plagued by existential threats. The poems consider the present and interpret it through a critical eye, carefully mindful of each subject's impact on daily lives. More than anything, the collection invites readers to tap into a deeper state of consciousness." — Chicago Tribune, "Best Books of Fall 2020" "Challenging as [these poems] are, many of them seem like prayers. For all poetry fans.' — Library Journal "[Graham's] most thrilling poems hurtle through long, unpredictable lines that devour and spit out ancient echoes and internet detritus as they go...She in her poems remakes a world you can inhabit, one in which you can sense what it is you're letting go of, now, before it's gone." — Harper's Magazine “Graham’s 15th collection of poetry has the heightened urgency of a young writer’s debut . . . Runaway taps into a free-floating end-of-the-worldness (is there a German word for that?) that so many of us feel even if we can’t express it. . . . Her latter-day poems arrive . . . like effusions, Whitmanic gusts of words, as if she’s channeling a sort of emergency scripture. Runaway feels as though it has been written for right now...but also for a target audience that might emerge 100 years on.” — New York Times Book Review "Jorie Graham’s poetry uniquely portrays the struggle to do the right thing, and above all to find meaning in the world’s “rich concentrate”. Her characteristically questioning work previously engaged with physics, history and personal morality, now turns its attention to accelerating planetary crisis. Runaway was completed before the pandemic, but its capacious understanding makes it as able to speak to this as to climate breakdown and global suffering. Graham juxtaposes individual experience with an almost incomprehensible scale of disaster with an urgency and an attention so exceptional it comes out as tenderness.” — The Guardian "Graham (Fast) begins her fifth decade of publishing with a bravura performance that probes the present for what the future will bring...Through her signature urgent questioning, Graham makes plain the psychic and physical cost to humans of wrecking the Earth." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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HarperCollins

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006303672X

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Errancy

By: Jorie Graham

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Errancy

By: Jorie Graham

Poems exploring the theme of sexual, emotional, political, and spiritual desire through the eyes of a poet's characters examine the age in which we live, where dreams are not as easy as they once were.

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0880015292

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9780880015295

Dream Of The Unified Field

By: Jorie Graham

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Dream Of The Unified Field

By: Jorie Graham

The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,and Materialism.

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0062105914

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9780062105912

Overlord

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

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Overlord

Poems

By: Jorie Graham

What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How -- in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear -- does one retain one's capacity to be both present and responsive? And to what extent does our capacity to be present, to be fully ourselves, depend on our relationship to an other and our understanding of and engagement with otherness itself? With what forces does the sheer act of apprehending make us complicit? What powers lord over us and what do we, as a species, and as souls, lord over? These are among the questions Jorie Graham, in her most personal and urgent collection to date, undertakes to explore, often from a vantage point geographically, as well as historically, other. Many of the poems take place along the coastline known as Omaha Beach in Normandy, and move between visions of that beach during the Allied invasion of Europe (whose code name was Operation Overlord) and that landscape of beaches, fields, and hedgerows as it is known to the speaker today. In every sense the work meditates on our new world, ghosted by, and threatened by, competing descriptions of the past, the future, and what it means to be, as individuals, and as a people, "free.

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0060758112

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9780060758110

Errancy

By: Jorie Graham

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Errancy

By: Jorie Graham

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0880015284

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9780880015288

[To] The Last [Be] Human

By: Jorie Graham

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Copper Canyon Press

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Erosion

By: Jorie Graham

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Erosion

By: Jorie Graham

The attempt to find all the stops, to range through the gamut of possibility, makes Ms. Graham a poet of landscape and memory as well as a poet of art." -- The New York Times Book Review.

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Princeton University Press

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0691014051

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To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

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To 2040

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Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

By: Jorie Graham

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Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

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How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: ". . . you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell

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140083144X

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Paranormal Incorporated - Office Memo #1

The Offices of Supernatural Being

By: Alexis Aurol,Alex Minns,Debbie Stone,L.M. Lydon,Rosa Quimby,VT Bard,Roxana Negut,Sydney Sailor,Jay Mendell,Jill Black,Jorie Rao,Morganna Duvall,Lisa Kaniut Cobb

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Paranormal Incorporated - Office Memo #1

The Offices of Supernatural Being

By: Alexis Aurol,Alex Minns,Debbie Stone,L.M. Lydon,Rosa Quimby,VT Bard,Roxana Negut,Sydney Sailor,Jay Mendell,Jill Black,Jorie Rao,Morganna Duvall,Lisa Kaniut Cobb

A fun and supernatural collection of original fantasy and humor from big names and talented newcomers! Do you find yourself wondering if your coworkers are more than they seem? Fourteen talented authors have come together to tell the tales of ghosts, demons, witches, goblins, vampires, shifters, and spirits living the corporate life. Those TPS reports may be due, and you hate working weekends, but it's sort of hard to concentrate when the werespider in the next cubicle over is typing SO LOUDLY. Punch the clock and settle in for a collection where situational comedy meets paranormal horror. The Offices of Supernatural Being is the first offering in the Paranormal Incorporated series. With contributions from debut and award-winning authors, these standalone short stories offer dark magic, workplace romance, action, revenge, secrets, ancient curses, chills, thrills, and more! Contributors include: Alexis Aurol VT Bard Jill Black Lisa Kaniut Cobb Morganna Duvall LM Lydon Jay Mendell Alex Minns Roxana Negut Rosa Quimby Jorie Rao Sydney Sailor Debbie Stone Spend your lunch hour in a break room where the mundane meets the magical at The Offices of Supernatural Being!

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4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.

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9798823200066

Erosion

By: Jorie Graham

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Erosion

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The attempt to find all the stops, to range through the gamut of possibility, makes Ms. Graham a poet of landscape and memory as well as a poet of art." -- The New York Times Book Review.

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Princeton University Press

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In-laws

Getting Along with Your Other Family

By: Ron Kincaid,Jorie Kincaid

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In-laws

Getting Along with Your Other Family

By: Ron Kincaid,Jorie Kincaid

Ron and Jorie Kincaid outline nine key principles for getting along with your other family. They explore basic areas such as handling financial gifts, caring for grandchildren, arranging holiday traditions, improving patterns of communication and dealing with criticism.

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0830819541

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9780830819546

Paul McCartney

I Saw Him Standing There

By: Jorie B. Gracen

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Paul McCartney

I Saw Him Standing There

By: Jorie B. Gracen

Filled with more than 200 exclusive photos, this revealing behind-the-scenes glimpse into the public and private persona of one of the greatest musician-singer-songwriters of all time is now available in paperback. 210 photos, 170 in color.

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Watson-Guptill Publications

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0823083691

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9780823083695

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

By: Jorie Graham

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0691064210

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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2

By: Anthony Julius,Nicholas Lemann,Alfred Brendel,Paul Berman,Jorie Graham,Fouad Ajami,Jack Goldsmith,Edward Luttwak,Roberto Calasso,Ishion Hutchinson,Walter Sheidel,Helen Vendler,Robert Alter,Daryl Michael Scott,Rosanna Warren,Alastair Macaulay,David Greenberg

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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics is devoted to educating the general public about the history, current trends, and possibilities of culture and politics.

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