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The first new collection of poetry in five years from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham"Graham's great body of work has more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing. . . . She is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: she changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark." - New York TimesIn her first new collection in five years - her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive to date - Graham explores the limits of the human and the uneasy seductions of the post-human. Conjuring an array of voices and perspectives - from bots, to the holy shroud, to the ocean floor, to a medium transmitting from beyond the grave - these poems give urgent form to the ever-increasing pace of transformation of our planet and ourselves.
About the Author
Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.
