PRODIGAL PA - Softcover

Gregerson, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0544301676 ISBN 13: 9780544301672

Publisher: EccoHMH, 2015

Synopsis

In her first book of collected work, prize-winning poet Linda Gregerson mines nearly forty years of poetry, bringing us a full range of her talents.

Ten new poems introduce Prodigal, followed by fifty poems, culled from Gregerson's five collections, that range broadly in subject from class in America to our world's ravaged environment to the wonders of parenthood to the intersection of science and art to the passion of the Roman gods, and beyond. This selection reinforces Gregerson’s standing as “one of poetry’s mavens . . . whose poetics seek truth through the precise apprehension of the beautiful while never denying the importance of rationality” (Chicago Tribune).
 
A brilliant stylist, known for her formal experiments as well as her perfected lines, Gregerson is a poet of great vision. Here, the growth of her art and the breadth of her interests offer a snapshot of a major poet's intellect in the midst of her career.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“One of poetry’s mavens . . . Gregerson’s poetics seek truth through the precise apprehension of the beautiful while never denying the importance of rationality.” — Chicago Tribune
 
In this landmark work, her first collected volume, prize-winning poet Linda Gregerson mines nearly forty years of poetry, bringing together the full breadth of her astonishing vision.

Linda Gregerson’s work ranges broadly in subject—from class in America to our world’s ravaged environment to the wonders of parenthood to the intersection of science and art to the passion of the Roman gods, and beyond. With ten new poems and fifty poems culled from her five collections, Prodigal reinforces her standing as a brilliant stylist, known for her formal experiments as well as her perfected lines, but also her reputation for great vision. Here, the growth of her art and the breadth of her interests offer a snapshot of a major poet’s intellect in the midst of her career.
 
“Gregerson manages to pair narrative immediacy with intricate orchestration, creating a kind of writing that hustles us along even as it reaches back through complicated echoes of earlier moments.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
 
“[Gregerson’s poetry] refuses the disparate, rewarding us instead with the gifts of improbable fusion.” — National Book Award Panel Citation
 
 
LINDA GREGERSON’s honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Kingsley Tufts Award, and the selection of Magnetic North as a National Book Award finalist. Gregerson is a professor at the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic,The New Yorker,Poetry, the Yale Review, and many other publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 
Author photograph © Nina Subin

About the Author:

LINDA GREGERSON is the author of Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. She teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: EccoHMH
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0544301676
• ISBN 13: 9780544301672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240