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Book SynopsisOne of
NPR's "Books We Love" in 2023
Acclaimed poet Nick Laird reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in with singular precision, clarity, and daring.
Trade Review"Ruminative and daring…Laird [is] a wild poet-soul attentive to everything in poetic omniscience, challenging readers to see what he sees in the double witnessing of art’s power…This is mastery over formal limitation—a kaleidoscope of perfectly calibrated chains of attention, constraints that break, release and re-form." -- Carol Muske-Dukes - Washington Post
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Up Late is an incredible book. It finds a music for our moment—its fragilities and terrors, it sets restlessness to a rhythm. It finds a new kind of irony, one that confronts our endless gallop into a mechanical, artificial, made-up idea of future, and asks instead why are we here in the first place, asks so without patronizing, almost without irony itself. There is an honesty in the tone of this book that stays in mind days after the last page is turned." -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
"With
Up Late, Nick Laird has stepped into his own future and produced a daring new poetic idiom that is all his own. His fortunate readers will be delighted and amazed." -- Billy Collins, author of Musical Tables
