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epub | 381.22 KB | English | Isbn:9780061537189 | Author: Jorie Graham | Year: 2009
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Quote:"Jorie Graham's status as a canonic poet - of the academic breed, with a flair for blending the intellectual and the sensual - is virtually guaranteed." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Sea Change is among Graham's most powerful books." - Time Out New York
"Here, the interconnectedness of all life isn't just a spiritual commonplace, it is grounds for a call to action, and one that Graham - a poet of rare responsiveness to the natural world and a thinker of great ethical responsibility - is uniquely qualified to make." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Stunning... Forthright, compassionate and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty... Graham writes with breathtaking precision." - Booklist (starred review)
"[Never] shows Graham to be a most formidable nature poet." - Publishers Weekly
"Graham is one of the most important living poets, and her control of her craft is undisputed." - Library Journal
"[Never] declares that the artistic task of becoming, once begun, continues on." - New York Times Book Review
"Graham confronts modern wickedness torture and global warming are two themes in lush, sometimes hymnlike verse, A-." - Entertainment Weekly
"Jorie Graham's intricate, sophisticated, and mercurial poems have long been one of the splendors of contemporary American literature. In her latest book, she turns her attention to death, and the result is perhaps her finest collection yet." - Village Voice