{"product_id":"9780062315441","title":"From the New World : Poems 1976-2014","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the New World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eDream of a Unified Field\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 Now, twenty years later, Graham returns with a new selection, this time from eleven volumes, including previously unpublished work, which, in its breathtaking overview, illuminates of the development of her remarkable poetry thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFrom the New World—Poems 1976-2014\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Ms. Graham is a central figure in the last four decades of American poetry. Her poems, with their long verse lines and Emily Dickinson-like dashes, are as instantly recognizable as Joni Mitchell’s voice on a turntable.”\u003cbr\u003e“Like the greatest filmmakers, Graham is miraculously gifted at tracing those inexplicable moments that carry a thing — a crow, the sun, a snowflake — from stillness to motion, from wholeness to disintegration and back again.”\u003cbr\u003e“I know of no living poet whose work so aligns with their reason for writing; I know of no living poet with a better reason for writing poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFrom the New World\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable addition to any literary library, a tour de force selection of Jorie Graham’s critically important poems to date.”\u003cbr\u003e“A well-curated representation…a long view of the aesthetic development and ethical awakening of one of America’s most important and critically lauded poets…The scale of thought and perception…is a testament to Graham’s work and her willingness to push herself into new territory with each new book.”\u003cbr\u003e“Graham is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: She changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark.”\u003cbr\u003e“Graham is one of our great poets. Her words will long outlast all this chatter.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of our most important purveyors of the form traces her artistic evolution in this collected work, demonstrating herself to be an eloquent observer of nature and guardian of myth.”\u003cbr\u003e“Graham is a wizard at representing spatial environments, no easy task in a verbal art that largely avoids narrative. . . . There are four new poems here, among the finest that Graham has written.”\u003cbr\u003e“Graham’s poetry over the decades hasn’t followed a single line of inquiry; rather, like a universe unto itself, it has expanded, broadened, and deepened its questioning, as though total inclusion were the only way to attempt to apprehend the unfathomable.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062315441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41065005908174,"sku":"9780062315441","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062315441.jpg?v=1648438379","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062315441","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}