Here There Be Monsters
A poet of the End Times accelerates into an unimaginable future
David Lau
Fast:
Poems
by Jorie Graham
Ecco
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With electrifying tension and sustained energy, Jorie Graham’s demanding poems assemble ancient and contemporary materials. Adapting Wallace Stevens’s philosophical mode, they are poems of the act of the mind—a subject-spirit both metaphysical and resolutely disillusioned. Graham’s persona is part Antigone keeping faith in a damaged world, part transcendental apperception. Designed to take the reader into depths, her works
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