The End of Beauty

The End of Beauty - Paperback

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The End of Beauty
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The End of Beauty - Paperback

The End of Beauty - Paperback

by Jorie Graham
$18.00
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"One follows these poems as one follows music.... A mesmerizing American voice." --Helen Vendler, The New Yorker

The stunning third book of poems from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

The End of Beauty is a remarkably striking, coherent collection that explores, in a language as precise and rich as any being written, the realm of belief and the methods by which we attempt to figure our world.

"Blake's dialectics of mental flight, Whitman's songs of the open road, Stevens's 'endlessly proliferating poem, ' Eliot's Quartets, Ashbery's prose poems have all taken some of the same chances. Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems by sudden changes of focus; her psychic elations and hesitations are Romantic in their volatility but post-Romantic in their skepticism, their self-interruptions, their own stage directions." --The New Yorker

ISBN9780880016162
Author Jorie Graham
PublisherEcco Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham was born in New York City, raised in Rome, and educated in France. Trilingual in English, Italian, and French, she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University to study filmmaking. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa and is the author of fifteen collections of poetry. Her work has been widely translated and she is the recipient of multiple honors including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, the International Nonino Prize, and most notably the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems. Currently, Graham is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.

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