In questa lettera aperta al 2040, Jorie Graham evoca un futuro probabilmente inevitabile. Come una storica o una cartografa, disegna un mondo apocalittico dove la pioggia deve essere tradotta, il silenzio canta più forte delle parole, gli uccelli sono artificiali e l'America come la conosciamo è finita nel 2030. È raro trovare un intero skyline in fiamme e subito dopo la calma per seguire un singolo verme, per sentire respirare il suolo: la quindicesima raccolta della poetessa americana ci mostra che è possibile. Con una voce che riflette sulla propria mortalità immersa in un profondo silenzio, nella memoria di un paesaggio scomparso, 2040 non può che renderci sempre più consapevoli della bellezza di questo mondo che potremmo distruggere.

In questa nuova raccolta - la più personale, coinvolgente e innovativa - Jorie Graham esplora i limiti dell'umano e le inquietanti seduzioni del post-umano. Evocando una varietà di voci e prospettive diverse - dalla sacra sindone ai fondali oceanici - questi testi danno forma e urgenza alla sempre più rapida trasformazione da cui è investito il pianeta: tra cyber-vita, «vita» stampata in 3D, vita dopo la morte, vita biologicamente, chimicamente ed elettronicamente modificata, fast getta luce sulla nostra esistenza, sulla nostra individualità e su una specie che oggi sembra camminare costantemente in bilico sull'orlo di un burrone.

An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.

The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.” In 1996, her volume of poetry selected from her first five books,Dream of a Unified Field, won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, twenty years later, Graham returns with a new selection, this time from eleven volumes, including previously unpublished work, which, in its breathtaking overview, illuminates of the development of her remarkable poetry thus far.

In From the New World—Poems 1976-2014, we can witness the unfolding of Graham’s signature ethical and eco-political concerns, as well as her deft exploration of mythology, history, love and, increasingly, love of the world in a time of crisis. As the work evolves, the depth of compassion grows—gradually transforming, widening and expanding her extraordinary formal resources and her inimitable style.

These pages present a brilliant portrait one of the major voices of American contemporary poetry. As critic Calvin Bedient says, “If Graham has proved oversized as a poet in the field of contemporary poetry, it is because she continually recalls the great Western tradition of philosophical and religious inquiry . . . tenaciously thinking and feeling her way through layer after layer of perception, like no poet before her.”

An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.

The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.” In 1996, her volume of poetry selected from her first five books,Dream of a Unified Field, won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, twenty years later, Graham returns with a new selection, this time from eleven volumes, including previously unpublished work, which, in its breathtaking overview, illuminates of the development of her remarkable poetry thus far.

In From the New World—Poems 1976-2014, we can witness the unfolding of Graham’s signature ethical and eco-political concerns, as well as her deft exploration of mythology, history, love and, increasingly, love of the world in a time of crisis. As the work evolves, the depth of compassion grows—gradually transforming, widening and expanding her extraordinary formal resources and her inimitable style.

These pages present a brilliant portrait one of the major voices of American contemporary poetry. As critic Calvin Bedient says, “If Graham has proved oversized as a poet in the field of contemporary poetry, it is because she continually recalls the great Western tradition of philosophical and religious inquiry . . . tenaciously thinking and feeling her way through layer after layer of perception, like no poet before her.”

Fin dalle prime battute, questo libro di Jorie Graham coinvolge il lettore e lo stupisce per l'energia incalzante, per la scrittura ansiosa, che si realizza in un incontenibile fluire di pensieri e immagini. Tra incedere narrativo ad ampio respiro (ma con frequenti fenditure interne) e una sorta di monologo interiore, l'autrice esplora, partendo dai dati della memoria e dalla sua reale esperienza, la molteplicità dell'esistente, le innumerevoli presenze che popolano il mondo, nella loro dimensione temporale, nella meraviglia e nel mistero dell'unica vita loro concessa. Jorie Graham parte da spunti aneddotici, da paesaggi, introduce personaggi di varia natura catturati dalla sua acutezza di osservatrice, come il falco silenzioso, il tronco morto, la talpa, il violinista, l'uomo che lavora, tutti coinvolti nell'immenso esserci eppure sempre in bilico sul nulla e "la sua splenderne vacuità". Ne scaturisce una poesia carica di tensione, scandita in ritmi aperti e molto vari, dall'orizzontalità della prosa all'impennarsi improvviso del canto, dentro una complessità magmatica dove figure e apparizioni danzano sulla pagina. Una poesia - qui proposta nella versione italiana di Antonella Francini, che con l'autrice ha lavorato fianco a fianco - che è un'alta avventura intellettuale il cui passo continuamente si inerpica fino al poemetto finale ispirato da una visita alla cattedrale di San Patrizio a Armagh.

A collection of poetry explores the role of subjective qualities in guiding people through a world that increasingly devalues human experience, and proposes a renewed recognition of individual value and influence.

The New York Times has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant her poetry is. In Sea Change, Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and damage done, and the realization that the existence of a "future" itself may no longer be assured?

There is no better writer to confront such crucial matters than Jorie Graham. In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been acknowledged as "our most formidable nature poet" (Publishers Weekly). As gorgeous and formally inventive as anything she has written, Sea Change is an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world we have known.

What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How -- in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear -- does one retain one's capacity to be both present and responsive? And to what extent does our capacity to be present, to be fully ourselves, depend on our relationship to an other and our understanding of and engagement with otherness itself? With what forces does the sheer act of apprehending make us complicit? What powers lord over us and what do we, as a species, and as souls, lord over?

These are among the questions Jorie Graham, in her most personal and urgent collection to date, undertakes to explore, often from a vantage point geographically, as well as historically, other. Many of the poems take place along the coastline known as Omaha Beach in Normandy, and move between visions of that beach during the Allied invasion of Europe (whose code name was Operation Overlord) and that landscape of beaches, fields, and hedgerows as it is known to the speaker today. In every sense the work meditates on our new world, ghosted by, and threatened by, competing descriptions of the past, the future, and what it means to be, as individuals, and as a people, "free."

Jorie Graham's collection of poems, Never, primarily addresses concern over our environment in crisis. One of the most challenging poets writing today, Graham is no easy read, but the rewards are well worth the effort. While thematically present, her concern is not exclusively the demise of natural resources and depletion of species, but the philosophical and perceptual difficulty in capturing and depicting a physical world that may be lost, or one that we humans have limited sight of and into. As she notes in "The Taken-Down God": "We wish to not be erased from the / picture. We wish to picture the erasure. The human earth and its appearance. / The human and its disappearance."

With a style that is fragmented and somewhat whirling--language dips and darts and asides are taken--Graham stays on point and presents an honest intellect at work, fumbling for an accurate understanding (or description) of the natural world, self-conscious about the limitations of language and perception.

T S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery -- and Jorie Graham. The New Yorker places Ms. Graham in this distinguished line of poets, heralding the Pulitzer Prize winner as a profound voice in American poetry. Now, in her eighth collection, she further enhances her reputation with a book-length sequence of verse that is a stunning work of grandeur.

The New Republic writes, "for 'swarm,' in other words...read 'be born again.' Graham is writing about a spiritual turning point, a new beginning.... Beauty -- that is, the pure sense-perception which has long been a concern for Graham -- is no longer the most important criterion. Now goodness is...[and] the idea of submission, of obedience, without understanding: one must 'yield' before 'hearing the reason' for yielding."

Poems exploring the theme of sexual, emotional, political, and spiritual desire through the eyes of a poet's characters examine the age in which we live, where dreams are not as easy as they once were.

This set of standards-based reproducible activity pages is basic, not boring. In World History students process a rich assortment of key facts and concepts while enjoying challenging activities that describe discoveries and disputes, famous persons and places, and world-changing events and inventions. An assessment and a glossary are included.

This set of standards-based reproducible activity pages is basic, not boring. In U.S. History, students will bring history to life as they look in on some of the great triumphs, tragedies, surprises, and changes in U. S. history. An assessment and a valuable glossary and timeline are included.

The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,and Materialism.