The Taken-Down God
Selected Poems 1997-2008
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:30th May '13
Should be back in stock very soon
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 poems address a planet spinning towards an unknowable future. They challenge us to inhabit a more responsive and responsible place in language and the world. Her poetry is as urgent as it is essential.
'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
ISBN: 9781847771940
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144 pages