Sea Change: Poems [Paperback]

TheNew York Timeshas said that Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have, and this new collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant her poetry is. InSea Change, Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and damage done, and the realization that the existence of a future itself may no longer be assured?

There is no better writer to confront such crucial matters than Jorie Graham. In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been acknowledged as our most formidable nature poet (Publishers Weekly). As gorgeous and formally inventive as anything she has written,Sea Changeis an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world we have known.

Jorie Grahams status as a canonic poet  of the academic breed, with a flair for blending the intellectual and the sensual  is virtually guaranteed.Sea Change is among Grahams most powerful books.Here, the interconnectedness of all life isnt just a spiritual commonplace, it is grounds for a call to action, and one that Graham  a poet of rare responsiveness to the natural world and a thinker of great ethical responsibility  is uniquely qualified to make.Stunning... Forthright, compassionate and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty... Graham writes with breathtaking precision.[Never] shows Graham to be a most formidable nature poet.Graham is one of the most important living poets, and her control of her craft is undisputed.[Never] declares that the artistic task of becoming, once begun, continues on.Graham confronts modern wickedness torture and global warming are two themes in lushl³"