Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Graywolf Pre
Keywords: poetry, award, tufts, kingsley, life, poems, modern
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1555974805
ISBN-13: 9781555974800

Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, “The Future of Terror” and “The Terror of the Future,” Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world. Her prose pieces and lyrics examine the divided, halved self in poems about centaurs, ship figureheads, and a robot boy. Throughout, Harvey’s signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we see and what we know.

Author: Mary Jo Bang
Publisher: Graywolf Pre
Keywords: poems, elegy
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555975402
ISBN-13: 9781555975401

The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 New York Times Notable Book Look at her—It’s as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes. —from “Ode to History” Mary Jo Bang is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Louise in Love and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Mary Jo Bang’s fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following

Author: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Pre
Keywords: poems, dynasty, honda, persons, unincorporated
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555975496
ISBN-13: 9781555975494

The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey GospelIn Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are intimately entwined, and whose citizens gasp for oxygen without knowing why. With Hoagland’s trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity, their desire to name the truth, and their celebration of the resilience of human nature.

Author: Martha Colli
Publisher: Graywolf Pre
Keywords: poems, blue
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 155597449X
ISBN-13: 9781555974497

A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern event, the trees were not involved.—from “Blue Front”Martha Collins’s father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking.In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a w

Author: Don Paterson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: poetry, selected, new, lie
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1555973531
ISBN-13: 9781555973537

A rising star in the United Kingdom, contemporary Scottish poet Paterson is poised to become a major voice of our time. The London Review of Books calls him "one of the most talented Scottish writers of the new generation." The White Lie is the first and only American selection of Paterson’s lyric and urbane poems.

Author: Jane Jeong Trenka
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: blood, language
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555974260
ISBN-13: 9781555974268

“A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)My name is Jeong Kyong-Ah. My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I come from a land of pear fields and streams, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. Halfway around the world, I am someone else.Jane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the small, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota—a place “where th

Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: work, domestic
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1555973094
ISBN-13: 9781555973094

In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labor-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.