Place
New Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 24, 2012
“Graham’s poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have.” —New York Times A startlingly original collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls “a mesmerizing voice,” Graham has been placed in the poetic lineage of such masters as T.S. Eliot and John Ashbery.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems trace how imagination, sensation, and language shape our place in a world under strain.
- Themes
- Inner landscapes and the self, Human dignity and responsibility, Natural world and human sensation
- Genres
- American Poetry, Political & Protest Poetry, Place Poetry
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“Graham’s poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have.” —New York Times A startlingly original collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls “a mesmerizing voice,” Graham has been placed in the poetic lineage of such masters as T.S. Eliot and John Ashbery.
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In Place, Graham explores the ways in which our imagination, intuition, and experience aid us in navigating a world moving towards its own annihilation and a political reality where the human person and its dignity are increasingly disposable. These poems seek out sites of wakeful resistance and achieved presence. From the natural world to human sensation, they investigate the reality and irreducible originality of our “inner landscapes.” They test the unstable “congeries” of the self, its ever-shifting vitality, and the creative tensions that inevitably exist within and between its interior and exterior life-particularly as these are shaped by language. In an era where distrust and evasion of human experience and its attendant accountability are pervasive, Place calls us to re-inhabit and make full use of—and even rejoice in—a more responsive and responsible place of the human in the world.
Attention and Presence
These poems trace how imagination, sensation, and language shape our place in a world under strain.
Come here for
- Poetry that moves between the natural world and human sensation
- Questions about the shifting self and its inner landscapes
Expect
- Wakeful resistance alongside close attention to experience
- A serious, searching encounter with language and responsibility
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 90% |
|---|---|
| Place Poetry | 46% |
| Political & Protest Poetry | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
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- Poetry Anthologies
- American Poetry
- Love Poetry
- Nature Poetry
- Authors
- Jorie Graham
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 24, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Inner landscapes and the self · Human dignity and responsibility · Natural world and human sensation
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- Essay Collections