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Fast Jorie Graham

Fast By Jorie Graham

Fast by Jorie Graham


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Jorie Graham's new book is characteristically exhilarating and inventive, exploring the limits of the human and the dark seductions of the post-human.

Fast Summary

Fast by Jorie Graham

Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020. Winner of the 2018 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In her first new collection in five years, leading American poet Jorie Graham returns with her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive work to date. In Fast Graham's long, pliant line takes sense as far as it can go, exploring the limits of the human and the dark seductions of the post-human. Conjuring an array of voices and perspectives - from bots to the holy shroud, the ocean floor and a medium transmitting from beyond the grave - these poems give form to the increasingly rapid transformation of our planet and ourselves. As it navigates cyber life; 3d-printed 'life'; life after death; and biologically, chemically, and electronically modified life, Fast lights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink.

Fast Reviews

'One of the finest poets writing today.' - John Ashbery; 'Jorie Graham is a poet of staggering intelligence.' - James Tate; 'There is a buoyancy in Graham's poetry, a freshness of vision which is rare in contemporary poetry.' - Times Literary Supplement, 27th June 2003

About Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. About her work, James Longenbach wrote in the New York Times: For 30 years Jorie Graham has engaged the whole human contraption - intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic - rather than the narrow emotional slice of it most often reserved for poems. She thinks of the poet not as a recorder but as a constructor of experience. Like Rilke or Yeats, she imagines the hermetic poet as a public figure, someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and political issues of the time simply by writing poems.Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990.Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.

Additional information

GOR009098056
9781784104702
1784104701
Fast by Jorie Graham
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
20170608
96
Winner of Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry 2018 Short-listed for The Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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