From the New World

<p><strong>Winner of the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Prize for Poetry</strong></p><p><strong>An indispensable volume of poems selected from almost four decades of work that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham.</strong></p><p>The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation. In 1996 her volume of poetry selected from her first five books <em>Dream of a Unified Field</em> won the Pulitzer Prize. Now twenty years later Graham returns with a new selection this time from eleven volumes including previously unpublished work which in its breathtaking overview illuminates of the development of her remarkable poetry thus far.</p><p>In <em>From the New World--Poems 1976-2014</em> we can witness the unfolding of Graham's signature ethical and eco-political concerns as well as her deft exploration of mythology history love and increasingly love of the world in a time of crisis. As the work evolves the depth of compassion grows--gradually transforming widening and expanding her extraordinary formal resources and her inimitable style.</p><p>These pages present a brilliant portrait one of the major voices of American contemporary poetry. As critic Calvin Bedient says If Graham has proved oversized as a poet in the field of contemporary poetry it is because she continually recalls the great Western tradition of philosophical and religious inquiry . . . tenaciously thinking and feeling her way through layer after layer of perception like no poet before her.</p>