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by Grace Schulman (Author)
Exquisite new work along with a selection of her finest poems spanning five decades from the essential poet and national treasure, Frost Medal winner Grace Schulman.
eight books plus a generous selection of new poems. In them, Grace Schulman
hears the call to praise tempered by harsh details of city life such as
trumpets that blare "louder than street sirens." and iron fences / handwrought with lyres, Greek frets,
acanthus leaves." One of our essential poets, she brings passion and
intelligence to bear on occasions she ponders, whether historical or
contemporary. In joy and in grief, Schulman gazes at the light and sees the
majesty in ordinary things. This collection spans five
decades of prize-winning books, and yet, as its title exclaims, the poetry of
Grace Schulman is as new as the rising sun. As Julie Sheehan has written of her most recent volume, "Read this collection if you, too, have grieved. Read it if you
need your own guide to the underworld. Read it if you've ever felt proud to get
at the meaning of poems, of art, of music. Read it if you want to be restored
to the world around you, if late-stage capitalism or imperialism or politics
have numbed you. Read it, then look up, breathe in, raise your own hands, and
let Grace Schulman assure you: 'I'll be there, / gazing impiously -- unless / that
is what sacred is, the work, the looking up, / the wonder.'"
Author Biography
Grace Schulman has received the Frost Medal for Distinguished
Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry from the American Poetry Society and is
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Her other honors include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, and five Pushcart
Prizes. She is author of a memoir, Strange
Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, editor of The
Poems of Marianne Moore, and is an essayist and
translator. Formerly Poetry Editor of The Nation and Director of
the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, she is Distinguished Professor of
English at Baruch College, CUNY.
