Jorie Graham

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Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994

Jorie Graham

For this major collection, spanning twenty years of writing, Jorie Graham has made a generous selection from her five previous volumes of poetry: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, and Materialism.

 

Materialism: Poems

Jorie Graham

In Materialism, her fifth collection, Jorie Graham undertakes a daring book-length meditation on the nature of our restless relationship with matter. With her trade-mark sagacity and vision, Graham unites the complex principles of science and philosophy with a startling array of tangible forms: a man praying in a downtown bakeshop; a crowd at an abortion rally; a survivor of the Stalinist regime alone in her dance studio.

 

Region of Unlikeness

Jorie Graham

In this stunning sequence of poems, first published in 1991, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham peels away at the “ever-tighter wrappings/of the layers of the/real” to expose the intimate interactions of our inner and outer lives. It is metaphysical poetry of the first order where questions of Being and Time fully inhabit the mundane world of nursing homes, cabarets, elevators, and insane asylums.

 
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