The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008

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Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the full range of her five most recent books, presenting European readers with a coherent and compelling body of work. The book complements her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field (1996), which selected work from her first five books. Here we follow her through the later environmental and political poems of Overlord, Sea Change and other collections. Her most recent book, P L A C E, was awarded the Forward Prize in 2012. Jorie Graham's poems address a planet spinning towards an unknowable future. They challenge us to inhabit a more responsive and responsible place in language and the world. Her poetry is as urgent as it is essential.

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Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the full range of her five most recent books, presenting European readers with a coherent and compelling body of work. The book complements her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field (1996), which selected work from her first five books. Here we follow her through the later environmental and political poems of Overlord, Sea Change and other collections. Her most recent book, P L A C E, was awarded the Forward Prize in 2012. Jorie Graham's poems address a planet spinning towards an unknowable future. They challenge us to inhabit a more responsive and responsible place in language and the world. Her poetry is as urgent as it is essential.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 30 May 2013
ISBN 10: 1847771947
ISBN 13: 9781847771940

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'One of the finest poets writing today.' --John Ashbery 'P L A C E was a happily unanimous choice for the judges. It is a challenging collection of unusual force and originality...' --Leonie Rushforth, Chair of the 2012 Forward Prize Judges

Author Bio

JORIE GRAHAM was born in New York in 1950. She grew up in Italy and studied at the Sorbonne, and at Columbia and Iowa Universities. A former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, she now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.