ABOUT THIS BOOK

Jorie Graham is one of the most important American poets now writing. This first book-length study brings together thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in her work and five new essays commissioned for this volume. Commenting on each of Graham's eight poetry collections, these essays encompass the range of critical thought that her work has attracted, both surveying it broadly and engaging closely with individual poems.
These essays identify three broad concerns that run through each of her strikingly different volumes of poems: the movement of the mind in action, the role of the body in experiencing the world, and the pressures of material conditions on mind and body alike. Gardner both shows how Graham is being read at the moment and charts new areas of investigation likely to dominate thinking about her over the next decade. This collection is sure to become the crucial first step for all future work on Graham and on American poetry of the last two decades.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Gardner is professor of English at Virginia Tech and author of Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary American Long Poem and Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry. He has edited three special issues of Contemporary Literature on American poetry of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

REVIEWS

“This book is a significant contribution not only to Graham scholarship, but to our understanding of American poetry at the end of the twentieth century—Eric Murphy Selinger, author of What Is It Then Between Us?: Traditions of Love in American Poetry

“An excellent collection of essays on Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham that really opens the field, presenting extraordinarily fine initial mappings of her writing.”—Eileen Gregory, author of H. D. and Hellenism

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
Acknowledgments	000
Introduction
	Thomas Gardner	000
1. Jorie Graham: Art and Erosion
	Bonnie Costello	000
2. From Countering Culture
	Elisabeth Frost	000
3. From Postlyrically Yours
	Calvin Bedient	000
4. Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess
	Helen Vendler	000
5. Iconoclasm in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
	Anne Shifrer	000
6. Listening for a Divine Word
	Forrest Gander	000
7. Jorie Graham's Big Hunger
	James Longenbach	000
8. From Exquisite Disjunctions, Exquisite Arrangements: Jorie Graham's Strangeness of Strategy
	Brian Henry	000
9. From Jorie Graham's Incandescence
	Thomas Gardner	000
10. From Breaking and Making
	Stephen Yenser	000
11. To Feel an Idea
	Joanna Klink	000
12. Indigo, Cyanine, Beryl
	Helen Vendler	000
13. Jorie Graham's _______s
	Thomas Otten	000
14. The Place of Jorie Graham
	James Longenbach	000
15. Jorie Graham Listening
	Willard Spiegelman	000
16. The Speaking Subject in/ Me: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
	Cynthia Hogue	000
17. "Tell Them No": Jorie Graham's Poems of Adolescence
	Stephen Burt	000
18. Toward a Jorie Graham Lexicon
	Calvin Bedient	000
Contributors	000
Index	000

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