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"Winner of the 2012 Book Merit Award in the General Trade, Poetry Series, New York Book Show" "Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry" "Kathleen Graber, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters" "Winner of the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry, Library of Virginia" "Finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry" "Finalist for the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry...

When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to “everything living / that won’t come with me / into this sunny...

"Intimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight to their work and their lives, and context to the often flawless art created by flawed human beings. The best of themselves endure, and the old poets' existence and endurance gives readers courage to pursue their own vision. Donald Hall knew a great deal about work, about poetry, and about age. Each of those things come together in this unique collection. We hear about Robert Frost...