The End of Beauty
“One follows these poems as one follows music…. A mesmerizing American voice.” —Helen Vendler, The New Yorker 

The stunning third book of poems from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

The End of Beauty is a remarkably striking, coherent collection that explores, in a language as precise and rich as any being written, the realm of belief and the methods by which we attempt to figure our world.

“Blake’s dialectics of mental flight, Whitman’s songs of the open road, Stevens’s ‘endlessly proliferating poem,’ Eliot’s Quartets, Ashbery’s prose poems have all taken some of the same chances. Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems by sudden changes of focus; her psychic elations and hesitations are Romantic in their volatility but post-Romantic in their skepticism, their self-interruptions, their own stage directions.” —The New Yorker 

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The End of Beauty
“One follows these poems as one follows music…. A mesmerizing American voice.” —Helen Vendler, The New Yorker 

The stunning third book of poems from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

The End of Beauty is a remarkably striking, coherent collection that explores, in a language as precise and rich as any being written, the realm of belief and the methods by which we attempt to figure our world.

“Blake’s dialectics of mental flight, Whitman’s songs of the open road, Stevens’s ‘endlessly proliferating poem,’ Eliot’s Quartets, Ashbery’s prose poems have all taken some of the same chances. Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems by sudden changes of focus; her psychic elations and hesitations are Romantic in their volatility but post-Romantic in their skepticism, their self-interruptions, their own stage directions.” —The New Yorker 

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The End of Beauty

The End of Beauty

by Jorie Graham
The End of Beauty

The End of Beauty

by Jorie Graham

Overview

“One follows these poems as one follows music…. A mesmerizing American voice.” —Helen Vendler, The New Yorker 

The stunning third book of poems from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

The End of Beauty is a remarkably striking, coherent collection that explores, in a language as precise and rich as any being written, the realm of belief and the methods by which we attempt to figure our world.

“Blake’s dialectics of mental flight, Whitman’s songs of the open road, Stevens’s ‘endlessly proliferating poem,’ Eliot’s Quartets, Ashbery’s prose poems have all taken some of the same chances. Graham keeps creative energy alive and unpredictable in these poems by sudden changes of focus; her psychic elations and hesitations are Romantic in their volatility but post-Romantic in their skepticism, their self-interruptions, their own stage directions.” —The New Yorker 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780880016162
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 08/28/1999
Series: American Poetry Series , #33
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.56(w) x 8.42(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jorie Graham is the author of fourteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.

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20th Century American Poetry
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American poetry->Women authors->20th century

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