Marianne Boruch is one of America's finest contemporary poets, and as she demonstrates in Poetry's Old Air, she is also a marvelous essayist. Weaving together close readings, biographical detail, and personal reflections, Boruch meditates on a universal fascination: how a poem comes to exist. A variety of imaginative approaches sets the essays apart from strictly academic poetry criticism. Boruch's ear for metaphor and attention to everyday experience enrich her readings of others' work. The unique connections she draws to the world beyond the literary one- including comparisons to...
Marianne Boruch is one of America's finest contemporary poets, and as she demonstrates in Poetry's Old Air, she is also a marvelous essayist. W...
In this remarkable book, her fourth collection of poems, Marianne Boruch continues to explore the world around her with curiosity, wry humor, searching skepticism, and thoughtful tenderness. Her poems range widely, letting themselves be triggered, often, by quite ordinary events and people, in order to launch themselves into unpredictable questions and considerations.
In this remarkable book, her fourth collection of poems, Marianne Boruch continues to explore the world around her with curiosity, wry humor, searchin...
Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Burning and A Stick That Breaks and Breaks) were published by Oberlin College Press, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority. As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch's is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible. It is about the risks--and the satisfactions--of confronting the many layers of anxiety and intensity that define modern existence."
Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Bur...
This new collection features twenty-five new poems and a generous selection by the author from each of her four previous volumes - View from the Gazebo, Descendant. Moss Burning, and A Stick that Breaks and Breaks.
This new collection features twenty-five new poems and a generous selection by the author from each of her four previous volumes - View from the Gazeb...
When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery. The narrator's path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel, now become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. Neither a memoir about private misery, nor a shocking expose...
When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and ...
Honored by "Library Journal" as an "Amazing Poetry Title"
"Extraordinary how in a single poem from 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Boruch slides 1800s London barber-surgeons and the dissection of murderers only (condemned to hell anyway) to the observation, 'Future or past, it's all we ever think about.' The first part of this sharp, surprising book captures our inescapable but slippery physicality in the world, the second the breakdown of the cadaver of a 99-year-old woman--told from her perspective, rather jauntily."--"Library Journal"
"Marianne Boruch's work has the...
Honored by "Library Journal" as an "Amazing Poetry Title"
"Extraordinary how in a single poem from 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Boruch...
