$35.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr / ISBN:9780520258785
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences--"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius"--in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract, experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium.
National Book Awards 2009 Winners
Let The Great World Spin
$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction.
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterio... Buy or find out more →
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
$56.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.
Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, cr... Buy or find out more →
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
$35.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences--"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruviu... Buy or find out more →
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
$33.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up ... Buy or find out more →
National Book Awards 2009 (Poetry Finalists)
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
$35.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences--"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruviu... Buy or find out more →
Open Interval
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Pittsburgh Pr
Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name. Buy or find out more →
Versed
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Wesleyan Univ Press
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry.
A double collection from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.
In recent years, Armantrout's reputation has soared-she began in the '70s as an obscure, early practition... Buy or find out more →
Or To Begin Again
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Ann Lauterbachas ninth work of poetry, "Or to Begin Again," takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy that resists its own end, as it meditates on the nearness of specific attachment and loss against the mute background o... Buy or find out more →
Speak Low
$44.00 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, ... Buy or find out more →