P L A C E by Jorie Graham
"P L A C E" begins with a poem dated 5 June 2009, located at St Laurent Sur Mer, better known by its code name Omaha Beach, one of the sites of the American landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944. It is the starting point for a book of poems written in the uneasy lull of a world moving towards an unknowable future. Jorie Graham explores the ways in which imagination, intuition and experience help us to navigate a life we will have no choice but to live. How does one think ethically as well as emotionally in such a world? How does one think of one's child - of having brought a child into this world? How does love continue? As we look back, and are compelled to try to see ahead, "P L A C E" calls us, in poems of great force and beauty, to inhabit and rejoice in a more responsive and responsible place in the world.
Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Her poems have been translated into numerous languages, including Albanian, Chinese and Polish. Her most recent collection is P L A C E (Carcanet, 2012). Born in New York in 1951, Graham grew up in France and Italy and was educated at the Sorbonne, New York University and the University of Iowa. A former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, she now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches poetry at Harvard University. For more information visit Jorie Graham's website: www.joriegraham.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847771933 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847771939 |
| Title | P L A C E |
| Author | Jorie Graham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2012 |
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