Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent
innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here
she selects from the five books that preceded her 2012 Forward
Prize-winning collection P L A C E, 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. 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.