Overlord

<p><strong><em>A New York Times</em> Notable Book</strong></p><p><strong>Graham is one of those rare poets who not only has created a language and poetic structure all her own but who seeks to redefine herself with each new book.--<em>San Diego Union-Tribune</em></strong></p><p><strong>In her most personal and urgent collection to date Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham explores questions of existence and presence of being and otherness. </strong></p><p>Set on the coastline known as Omaha Beach in Normandy the poems in <em>Overlord</em>--the code name for the wartime invasion itself--move between visions of that beach during the Allied invasion and that landscape of beaches fields and hedgerows as it known as today.</p><p><em>Overlord</em> meditates on our new world ghosted by and threatened by competing descriptions of the past the future and what it means to be as individuals as a people free.</p>