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.

Authors:David Baker, Ann Townsend,
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: poetry, lyric, essays, lyre, radiant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555974600
ISBN-13: 9781555974602

An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetryWe are delighted when we recognize patterns and continuities, as we are delighted by a new poem’s radical adjustment of, critique of, rejection of, or simple application of those patterns and modes. A poem means something because of previous poems.                                                                                 —from the Introduction Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry is a

Author: Dag Solstad
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: dignity, shyness
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1555974465
ISBN-13: 9781555974466

An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen’s 100th anniversary celebrations In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of The Wild Duck. He was once more struck by their hostile attitude toward him. But it couldn’t be helped, he had a task to perform and was going through with it. It was from them as a group that he sensed that massive dislike sent forth by their bodies. Individually they could be very pleasant, but toge

Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: poems, ophelia, bellocq
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1555973590
ISBN-13: 9781555973599

Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library AssociationIn the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the subject of her stunning second collection of poems. With elegant precision, Ophelia tells of her life on display: her white father whose approval she earns by standing very still; the brothel Madame who tells her to act like a statue while the gentlemen callers choose; and finally the camera, which not only captures her body, but also o

Author: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: craft, poetry, essays, sofistikashun, real
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555974554
ISBN-13: 9781555974558

The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless observer in all of us, the spiteful perceptive angel who sees and tells, unimpeded by nicety or second thoughts. There is truth-telling, and more, in meanness. —from “Negative Capability: How to Talk Mean and Influence People” Tony Hoagland has won The Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award, recognizing