Swarm, Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros, and law. The poet confronts a fundamental problem: whom to address, whom there still is to address. She negotiates passionately with those powers that human beings feel themselves subject to: God, matter, law, custom, the force of love. She remains 'A poet of large ambitions and reckless music,' as J.D. McClatchy wrote in the New York Times; she 'writes with a meta-physical flair and emotional power.' ...
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Swarm, Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros, and law. The poet confronts a fundamental problem: whom to address, whom there still is to address. She negotiates passionately with those powers that human beings feel themselves subject to: God, matter, law, custom, the force of love. She remains 'A poet of large ambitions and reckless music,' as J.D. McClatchy wrote in the New York Times; she 'writes with a meta-physical flair and emotional power.' 'To swarm' is to leave a hive, a home, a stable sense of one's body, a hierarchy of values, in an attempt, apart, to found new forms that will hold. Key players in Graham's drama are the first person, the enjambement, the phrase, the gap, the sentence. And everywhere, lovers seek the borders they must break as well as those they must at all costs hold. Clytemnestra awaits Agamemnon, Calypso veils Ulysses, Daphne accepts Apollo: figures familiar from her earlier books reappear, eager to plead their stories into sense.
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Add this copy of Swarm to cart. $6.53, good condition, Sold by Phatpocket Limited rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham Abbey, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2000 by Carcanet Press Ltd.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN: 9781857544954.
Add this copy of Swarm: Poems to cart. $10.99, good condition, Sold by The Yard Sale Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Narrowsburg, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Ecco Pr.
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Good. Reliable paperback in sturdy condition. Just a bit of shelf wear to the covers. Tight binding. The text flows clearly from beginning to end. Enjoy this worthwhile edition.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed, and inscribed to a named individual, by the poet on the title page. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover shows only mild shelfwear at spine heel and corners; dust jacket is likewise lightly chipped at extremeties but remains unclipped, bright, and now protected in a clear sleeve. Full number line.; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Swarm: Poems to cart. $37.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by The Ecco Press / HarperCollins.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Small shadow on contents page, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. A book-length sequence of poems from the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner.
Add this copy of Swarm: Poems to cart. $42.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by The Ecco Press / HarperCollins.
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