
Runaway
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A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham.
In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present - a now - in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, 'counting silently towards infinity'. Graham's essential voice guides us fluently 'as we pass here now into the next-on world', what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us 'to the last be human'.
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'Runaway, Jorie Graham's expansive new book, insistently tunes us to the human urgency for wholeness, for the meanings of embodiment in a time when some of us/are murdered, and some of have mouths that keep saying yes.'Forrest Gander, New York Times 'Her most thrilling poems hurtle through long, unpredictable lines that devour and spit out ancient echoes and internet detritus as they go. . . . She in her poems remakes a world you can inhabit, one in which you sense what it is you're letting go of, now, before it's gone.'
Harper's Magazine 'Sweeping lines and fractured phrases, ampersands and italics, lines unexpectedly justified right: all of these wake us up to 'the freshness of what's / there.'
Fiona Sampson, The Guardian 'From its opening page until its final lines, Graham''s 15th collection of poetry has the heightened urgency of a young writer's debut. True to its title, it hurtles forward. Poems pour forth, frothing and pooling and threatening, at times, to overflow their banks...Runaway feels as though it has been written for right now, especially as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, but also for a target audience that might emerge 100 years on...'
Jeff Gordinier, New York Times 'Attempting to comment briefly on this visionary commotion is like trying to capture thunder and lightning in a bottle... This is a world beyond humanity, beyond nature, beyond culture, and yet amid the ruins there is the undeniable triumph and power of poetic utterance'
Rachel Hadas, Times Literary Supplement
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About her work, James Longenbach wrote in the New York Times: "For 30 years Jorie Graham has engaged the whole human contraption - intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic - rather than the narrow emotional slice of it most often reserved for poems. She thinks of the poet not as a recorder but as a constructor of experience. Like Rilke or Yeats, she imagines the hermetic poet as a public figure, someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and political issues of the time simply by writing poems." Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990.
Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. In 2017 she was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EPIGRAPH
- CONTENTS
- I
- ALL
- TREE
- I'M READING YOUR MIND
- MY SKIN IS
- WHEN OVERFULL OF PAIN I
- OVERHEARD IN THE HERD
- II
- [TO] THE LAST [BE] HUMAN
- FROM THE TRANSIENCE
- PRAYER FOUND UNDER FLOORBOARD
- CARNATION/RE-IN
- BECOMING OTHER
- THAW
- EXCHANGE
- III
- SAM'S DREAM
- SAM'S STANDING
- WHEREAS I HAD NOT YET IN THIS LIFE SEEN
- RAIL
- I WON'T LIVE LONG
- SCARCELY THERE
- UN-
- IV
- THE HIDDENNESS OF THE WORLD
- RUNAWAY
- IT CANNOT BE
- WHOM ARE YOU
- SIRI U
- IN THE NEST®
- THE WAKE OFF THE FERRY
- POEM
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ALSO BY JORIE GRAHAM
- COPYRIGHT
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