Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley’s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open , in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley’s deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including the Egyptian «Book of the Dead» and the writings of Charles Darwin, Peter Mark Roget, William Morris, William James, and Henri Bergson. Gridley’s own i ...
"Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book."—Seamus Heaney "Few voices in American literature are so honest and daring."—Mark Strand "One of our most brilliant poets."—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz "I feel the primal grain and temper of the genuine here."—William Heyen "A lament, a protest, an inextinguishable song."—Sherod Santos "Among the best and most ...
Das Komponisten-Paar Schonherz & Fleer ist der Schopfer des mehrfach preisgekronten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sanger interpretieren ausgewahlte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik – eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEI?E NACHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schonheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Horbuch verstromt die ...
Das Komponisten-Paar Schonherz & Fleer ist der Schopfer des mehrfach preisgekronten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sanger interpretieren ausgewahlte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik – eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEI?E NACHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schonheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Horbuch verstromt die ...
NEA Fellowship recipient; Pamela is well connected to military family audience; Documentary-style war narrative with unique focus not on the war front but on the home front; Excellent candidate for course adoption; Situated in current events; Kathryn A. Morton Prize Winner, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author details an unconsummated love affair that sustains political, philosophical, and sexual interest over a lifetime. The truth is always differentfrom what anyone says out loud,but who really cares? Not I, said the manI chose to be, nor I nor I nor I—among the many of us she left teetering. Stephen Dunn is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently Lines of D ...
" Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen Butler I release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little light left on behind him. James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic , and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea . He been the recipien ...
Men carry a mattress retrievedfrom a dumpster past the floodedfoundations of an unfinishedhigh-rise, an old woman catchesa pigeon in the folds of her dressthe dead smile and rise from swimmingpools or stand at attentionon stamps. The landscape can't believeit's real—there is no groundbeneath it, like what mirrors do. Adam Day is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and Kentucky Arts Council, and ...