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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Ecco
Price: $23.95
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JORIE GRAHAM reads from Sea Change
Harvard Book Store is pleased to present Pulitzer Prize-winning poet JORIE GRAHAM reading from her new collection, Sea Change. In Sea Change Graham's stirring voice and form take on our increasing awareness of the destruction we are inflicting upon our world. In poems that seem at times addressed to a future people, the speaker tries to describe what it was we took for granted--rain, a normal turn in season--and how we tried to awaken to the danger. She puts before us, in accurate and loving description, what this disappearing world was to us. The idea of an end of the world, while always a part of the human imagination and a common terrain for poetry, takes on a sudden reality that feels both unimaginable and shattering. And she manages, simultaneously, to fill us with a sense of sheer joy, even exuberance, in her praising of the beloved world. A sensuous and imaginative writer, Graham captures the beauty as well as the still incomprehensible mystery of the natural world as it seems to prepare to slip from view.
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CONTACT:
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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Wednesday, April 2nd |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 and spent her youth in Italy. She attended New York University as an undergraduate and received an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Never; Swarm; The Errancy; The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Materialism; Region of Unlikeness; The End of Beauty; Erosion; and Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language and The Best American Poetry 1990. Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.
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