Overlord: Poems (Paperback)

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Overlord: Poems (Paperback)

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A New York Times Notable Book

“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.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

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.

Set on the coastline known as Omaha Beach in Normandy, the poems in Overlord—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.

Overlord 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."

Jorie Graham is the author of fourteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.

Product Details ISBN: 9780060758110
ISBN-10: 0060758112
Publisher: Ecco
Publication Date: February 28th, 2006
Pages: 112
Language: English

“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. Restless, unsatisfied, hungering for a further truth, she offers meditations in NEVER that are nothing less than dazzling.” — San Diego Union-Tribune

“Her syntax fires like synapses. Take her labyrinthine poems the way Frost said to look at a star that fades when stared at. If we focus on a spot beside it, the light will swim into the eye and, as Graham words it, ‘silver into place.’” — Seattle Weekly

“Stunning... Forthright, compassionate and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty... Graham writes with breathtaking precision.” — Booklist (starred review)

“Fierce, brilliant, implacable.” — Los Angeles Times