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“Graham’s poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have.”
—New York Times
“One of the most important living poets.”
—Library Journal
Place is a new collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls “a mesmerizing voice”…
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1 author picked Place as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There is not a better poet writing in English. For Graham, language is a beautiful, purposeful tool and she is using it, without pretense, to dig deeper and deeper into the ground of being. She asks the questions beneath the questions, and though she does not pretend to answer them, the reader shares and marvels in her asking, in her attention to being human and alive.
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