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Poetry. "These new poems are formally brilliant, playfully colloquial, and often very moving. Away from the fads and short-lived literary movements, Jerry Harp is at once technically masterful and deeply thoughtful" -- Kevin Prufer. Jerry Harp is the co-winner of the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize.

With a clear unsentimental lens on the past, Harp's smart and captivating poems dissect the remnants of time and what grief charges us with daily. Lyrically powerful and unique in their stark American landscape, these vibrating poems serve as ropes that pull us back into the river and out again towards a safer shore. Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things: Poems "In this poignant collection, the perilous imperative to mark one's life runs up ...

A timely and informative collection, A Poetry Criticism Reader brings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the best and most illuminating poetry criticism from the past decade. In his introduction to the book, editor-poet Jerry Harp gives an overview of poetry criticism and its pluralistic traditions after the high modernist years of T. S. Eliot. In the essays that follow, esteemed critics and poets explore varied aspects...

When Donald Justice wrote in "On a Picture by Burchfield" that "art keeps long hours, " he might have been describing his own life. Although he early on struggled to find a balance between his life and art, the latter became a way of experiencing his life more deeply. He found meaning in human experience by applying traditional religious language to his artistic vocation. Central to his work was the translation of the language of devotion to a...

This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can all more truly live.