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Firsts 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets
ISBN: PB: 9780300243161, ISBN: HB: 9780300243178, Yale University Press, January 2020
440 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its winners include some of the most influential voices in American poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Forche, and Robert Hass...
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For My People
ISBN: PB: 9780300246407, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm
Considered among the most important collections of poetry written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance, For My People is a series of ballad poems with memorable characters, including the New Orleans sorceress Molly Means; Kissie Lee, a t...
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Gathering the Tribes
ISBN: PB: 9780300246322, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm
The poems in "Gathering the Tribes" recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young?adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning. Many deal with uprootedness – hasty emigrations...
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Joy 100 Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300248630, ISBN: HB: 9780300226089, Yale University Press, January 2020
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertise...
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Mask for Janus
ISBN: PB: 9780300246384, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm
While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, l...
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Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300246360, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm
The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan's lifetime, "Poems" examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls, house plants, love, war, religion, and the Irish. Explorations inevitably arouse feelings of aliena...
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Some Trees
ISBN: PB: 9780300246377, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm
Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". After the publication of "Some Trees", selecting j...
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Views of Jeopardy
ISBN: PB: 9780300246346, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm
In an essay on his own work in "19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate", Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, selection... One of the special pleasures in poetry for me is accomplishing a lot with the least means...
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Dregs of the Day
ISBN: PB: 9780300242775, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
The final published work by the renowned Mairtin O Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction, or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or w...
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Family Record
ISBN: PB: 9780300238310, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of candor, mystery, and bewitching elusiveness, Patrick Modiano weaves toget...
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