$26.95 – Paperback / The University of Chicago Press / United States
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them.
National Book Award Winners 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
Goblin Secrets
$24.95 – Hardback / Margaret K. McElderry Books
Rownie, the youngest in Graba the witchworker's household of stray children, escapes and goes looking for his missing brother. Along the way he falls in with a troupe of theatrical goblins and learns the secret origins of... Buy or find out more→
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
$26.95 – Paperback / The University of Chicago Press
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that... Buy or find out more→
The Round House
$38.95 – Hardback / Harper
One Sunday in the summer of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to reveal the details of what... Buy or find out more→
National Book Award Poetry Finalists 2012
Meme
$26.95 – Paperback / University of Iowa Press
A meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation. Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go viral. But what could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children? Susan... Buy or find out more→
Night of the Republic
$30.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places―a gas station restroom, a shoe store, a convention hall, and a race track, among other locations―and in stark, Edward... Buy or find out more→
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
$26.95 – Paperback / The University of Chicago Press
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that... Buy or find out more→
Heavenly Bodies
$23.95 – Paperback / Southern Illinois University Press
In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the... Buy or find out more→
Fast Animal
$20.95 – Paperback / Etruscan Press
The newest collection from one of America’s foremost African-American poets threads the journey from youthful innocence to the whittled-hard awareness of adulthood. Along the way it immerses the reader in palpable moments―the... Buy or find out more→
