Background
Graham, Jorie was born on May 9, 1951 in New York City. Daughter of Curtis Bell and Beverly (Stoll) Pepper.
( "How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," w...)
"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: ". . . you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell
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(In this stunning sequence of poems, first published in 19...)
In this stunning sequence of poems, first published in 1991, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham peels away at the "ever-tighter wrappings/of the layers of the/real" to expose the intimate interactions of our inner and outer lives. It is metaphysical poetry of the first order where questions of Being and Time fully inhabit the mundane world of nursing homes, cabarets, elevators, and insane asylums.
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(A collection of poems by "a poet of large ambitions and r...)
A collection of poems by "a poet of large ambitions and reckless music. Ms. Graham writes with a metaphysical flair and emotional power".--New York Times Book Review.
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Graham, Jorie was born on May 9, 1951 in New York City. Daughter of Curtis Bell and Beverly (Stoll) Pepper.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New York University, 1973. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1978.
Assistant professor Murray (Kentucky) State University, 1978-1979, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 1979-1981. Instructor Columbia University, New York City, 1981-1983. Member staff University Iowa, Iowa City, 1983—1999, professor English, director Writer's Workshop, 1999.
Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric Harvard University, since 1999. Poetry editor Crazy Horse, 1978-1981. Chancellor Academy American Poets, 1997-2003.
(In this stunning sequence of poems, first published in 19...)
( "How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," w...)
(A collection of poems by "a poet of large ambitions and r...)
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Married James Galvin.