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Farrar, Straus and Giroux New Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poetThom Gunn has been described as one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century (Times Literary Supplement). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco-the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equipped-by temperament, circumstance, or poetic gift-to engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn. This New Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes,
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc A Piece of Good News
Book SynopsisA rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poetIn those days I began to see light under everybushel basket, light nearly splittingthe sides of the bushel basket. Light camethrough the rafters of the dairy where the gracklescongregated like well-taxed citizensuntransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the oneunderneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say. When I grew restless in the interior,the exterior gave.Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson's A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this rema
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Daylight
Book SynopsisA crucial new voice explores sexuality, trauma, and the resilience of the Black woman in dayliGht, a debut poetry collection from spoken word poet Roya Marsh
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Mosses and Lichens
Book SynopsisA new collection from the author of TravelerNot days of angerbut days of mild congestion,infants of inconstant sorrow,days of foam in gutters,blossoms and snowmingling where they fall,a spring of cold profusion.If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston's Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life's journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformation and transfer. They draw on early blues and rivers, on ironies and uncertainties, guided by enigmatic signals: an orange blaze that marks no trail. From image to image, they render fleeting experiences with etched precision. As Ange Mlinko has observed of Johnston''s work, Each poem holds in balance a lapidary concision and utter lush
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux 100 Poems
Book SynopsisSelected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from The Cure at Troy to Death of a Naturalist. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney's poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Frolic and Detour
Book SynopsisA new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetThough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record / remark becomes the party line. Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in The New York Review of Books, as the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc If Men Then
Book SynopsisA darkly humorous collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named I-a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Survival Is a Style
Book SynopsisNamed as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet's father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Pale Colors in a Tall Field
Book SynopsisA powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets.Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self's multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips's most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Idea of Perfection
Book SynopsisA fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century.Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks.Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry?s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet, nor his occasional sketchbook, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary ?exercise of thought,? a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent, as rigorous, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject.The Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works?Album of Early Verse, The Young Fate, and Charms?with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem ?The Angel.? Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Selected Poems 19681996
Book SynopsisJoseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling. The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, they represent the project that, as Brodsky said, the condition we call exile presented: to set the next man-however theoretical he and his needs may be-a bit more free. This edition, edited and introduced by Brodsky's literary executor, Ann Kjellberg, includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. Selected Poems, 1968-1996 surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux This Afterlife
Book SynopsisA selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint. The Underworld and the Afterlife, ancient history and the archaeology of the here and now, all slant rhyme with one another. Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself. Fulfilling the promise of the energy and sprezzatura of Stallings's earliest collection, her later technical accomplishments rise to meet the richness of lived experience: of marriage and motherhood, of a life lived in another language and country, of aging and mortality. Her chosen home of Greece adds layers of urgency to her fascination with Greek mythology; living in an epicenter of contemporary crises means current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems.Expert at traditional received forms, Stallings is also a poet of restless experiment, in cat's-cradle rhyme schemes, nonce stanzas, supple free verse, thematic variation, and metaphysical conceits. The pleasure of these poems, fierce and witty, melancholy and wise, lies in a timeless precision that will outlast the fickleness of fashion.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc True Life
Book SynopsisA stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment's joyand melancholy's dark contentment.In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time, and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Caiplie Caves
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux HowdieSkelp
Book SynopsisThe Pulitzer Prizewinning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.A howdie-skelp is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an affront to good taste. Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture but to command our attention.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Music for the Dead and Resurrected
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Frederick Seidel Selected Poems
Book SynopsisAn overview of Frederick Seidel''s best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craftFrederick Seidel has been hailed as the poet of a new contemporary form (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and the most frightening American poet ever (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review). The poems in Frederick Seidel Selected Poems span more than five decades and provide readers with some of Seidel''s most powerful work.Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, the best American poet writing today.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Zero at the Bone
Book SynopsisChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Then the War
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYA new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips''s Then the WarI'm a song, changing. I'm a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an ongoing quest; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips's work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Averno
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Poems 19622012
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Book SynopsisNew and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prizewinning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon honkytonk,Wherever blues dare to travel.Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past twenty years of Yusef Komunyakaa's work, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaa's masterful, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war, the natural power of the earth and of love, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam, the ugly violence of racism in America, and the meaning of power and morality.The new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our most significant and individual voices (David Wojahn, Poetry). Komunyakaa writes of a young man fashioning a slingshot, workers who honor the Ear
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The FSG Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisTo honor FSG''s 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry listpast, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux''s identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux''s first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank B
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc More Anon
Book SynopsisSelected poems of Maureen N. McLaneMore Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane's critically acclaimed first five books of poetry.McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style.As Parul Seghal wrote in Bookforum, To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she's at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy. In More Anon, McLanea poet, scholar, and prizewinning criticdisplays the full range of her vertiginous mind and daring experimentation.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Against Silence
Book SynopsisAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and one of the undisputed master poets of our time (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)Words, voices reek of the worlds from which theyemerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpablearoma, its parameters, limitations, promise.Wordsthere is a gap, nonetheless alwaysand forever, between words and the worldslip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. Set up a situation,. . . then reveal an abyss.For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner's eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Many Hundreds of the Scent
Book SynopsisA stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers'' Award.Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to the thin king / who eats the world, McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. O reader, listener, stay, McCrae writes. You are now evidence.In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those who populate the poet's world. Helen weighs Paris's spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; Penelope burns her loom each night; Dido watches Aeneas's ship
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Console
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux What You Want
Book SynopsisNational Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.In her first book of poems since the scintillating More Anon: Selected Poems, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. What You Want is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shapes an ambient unease. Whether skying with John Constable or walking on wintry paths in our precarious republic, the poet channels what Wordsworth called moods of my own mind while she scans for our common horizon. Here are poems filled with gulls and harbors, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumored sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. From Sappho to the Luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane, from constellations to microplastics, What You Want is
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Then the War
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc This Afterlife
Book SynopsisA selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint. The Underworld and the Afterlife, ancient history and the archaeology of the here and now, all slant rhyme with one another. Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself. Fulfilling the promise of the energy and sprezzatura of Stallings's earliest collection, her later technical accomplishments rise to meet the richness of lived experience: of marriage and motherhood, of a life lived in another language and country, of aging and mortality. Her chosen home of Greece adds layers of urgency to her fascination with Greek mythology; living in an epicenter of contemporary crises means current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems.Expert at traditional received forms, Stallings is also a poet of restless experiment, in cat's-cradle rhyme schemes, nonce stanzas, supple free verse, thematic variation, and metaphysical conceits. The pleasure of these poems, fierce and witty, melancholy and wise, lies in a timeless precision that will outlast the fickleness of fashion.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Cain Named the Animal
Book SynopsisA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, a shrewd composer of American stories (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)Writing you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae''s work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and strains toward a vision of joy (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books).Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Was It for This
Book SynopsisA hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poemsabout London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting.Nothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's atten
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Invisible Mending
Book SynopsisThe essential poetry of C. K. Williams, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.C. K. Williams (19362015), one of the most treasured American poets of the past century, was also one of the most surprising. From poem to poem, his voice would shift in register and style, yet a certain essence would remain: his conviction, his ethic, and his burning gaze. As William Deresiewicz wrote in The New York Times, Williams's scorching honesty has always been his calling card. His poetry proceeds not from a verbal impulse, not from a lyrical impulse, not even from a prophetic or visionary impulse, but from a moral impulse. Everything, in his work, is held up to the most exacting ethical scrutiny, beginning with the poet himself.Invisible Mending: The Best of C. K. Williams is the essential collection of the great poet's work. Selected by his family and friends and with an introduction by the award-winning poet Alan Shapiro, this book charts
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux School of Instructions
Book SynopsisA stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson''s School of Instructions memorializes the experience of West Indian soldiers volunteering in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I. The poem narrates the psychic and physical terrors of these young Black fighters in as they struggle against the colonial power they served; their story overlaps with that of Godspeed, a schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s. This visionary collision, in which the horizontal, documentary shape of the narrative is interrupted by sudden lyric effusions, unsettles both time and event, mapping great moments of heroism onto the trials of everyday existence It reshapes grand gestures of heroism in a music of supple, vigilant intensity. Elegiac, epochal and lyrical, School of Instructions confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and weaves shards of remembrance?your word mass / your mix match / your jamming of elements?into a unique form of survival. It is a masterpiece of imaginative recuperation by a poet of prodigious gifts.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Fog and Smoke
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux With My Back to the World
Book SynopsisShort-listed for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book th
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Silver
Book SynopsisRowan Ricardo Phillips's fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. This beautiful, slender collectionsmall and weighted like a coinis Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as they are virtuosic. Not the meaning, Phillips writes, but the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life powers these poems as they conjure their prismatic array of characters, textures, and moods. As it reverberates through several styles (blank verse, elegy, terza rima, rhyme royal, translation, rap), Silver reimagines them with such extraordinary vision and alluring strangeness that they sound irrepressibly fresh and vibrant. From beginning to end, Silver is a collection that reflects Phillips's guiding principlepart physics, part faith, part voidthat all is reflected in poetry and poetry is reflected in all.This is work that brings into acute focus the singular and glorious power of po
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Grand Tour
Book SynopsisElisa Gonzalez''s thrilling debut makes one feel as if poems have never before been written (Louise Glück). Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.Gonzalez's poetry depicts the fullness of living. There are the small moments: white wine greening in a glass, trumpet blossoms panicking across the garden. Some poems adopt the oracular quality of a parable but invariably refuse a clear moral. The poet moves through elegy, romantic and sexual encounters, family history, and placeCyprus, Puerto Rico, Poland, Ohioall constellated in a chaos of faraway. The collection is held together less by answers than by a persistent question: How doe you reconcile a hatred for the world's pain with a love for that same world, which is indivisible from its worst aspects? Gonzalez's poems draw us nearer to our own aliveness, its fragility and sustaining questions. Since I do love the world, she says, she keeps writing, inviting us to accompany her as she searches.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Crisis Actor
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux A History of Western Music
Book SynopsisIn a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West''s greatest music.In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler's rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the minds and milieus of musicians; he hears arpeggios in the salon of Princesse Edmonde de Polignac and listens to the vibrations of a hummingbird through Béla Bartók. Kleinzahler's verse not only contains the same sonorous beauty as the compositions he writes of but also the vitality and complexity of the moments we associate with themthe way the soundtrack of one's life becomes defined by the scenes it scores, and vice versa.From John Coltrane to Annie Lenox, from opera to bebop and all the jingles and melodies in betwe
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Couplets
Book SynopsisAn astounding debut.Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affairinto queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind.Maggie Millner's captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chr
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Translations of Seamus Heaney
Book SynopsisThe complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator. Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, something imperishable and great (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic careers of recent times (Nick Laird, Harper's Magazine). Now, for the first time, the poet, critic, and essayist's translations are gathered in one volume. Heaney translated not only classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Ancient and Modern Greek, Middle and Modern French, and Medieval and Modern Italian, among other languages. In particular, the Nobel laureate engaged with works i
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