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In her fourth essay collection, beloved poet and essayist Marianne Boruch digs down into a series of thought experiments that explore and revere poetry, language, and all manner of oddities"--

Inspired by Boruch's experiences as a Fulbright scholar sent to observe the astonishing wildlife of the Australian OutbackMeticulous documentation of the animal world, from cassowaries and kangaroos to emusBoruch's work revolves around wonder at the beautiful landscape of Australia and despair at its subsequent destruction in the devastating 2019-20 bushfire season. Urgent environmental themesTable of Contents is being published as its own poe...

In this volume of meditations, Boruch's imagery blurs the line between natural and supernatural. And of course there is grief--working through grief, getting over grief, living with grief, and in these magnificent poems, anti-grief.rief.

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Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Burning and A Stick That Breaks and Breaks) were published by Oberlin College Press, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority. As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch's is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible...

Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Burning and A Stick That Breaks and Breaks) were published by Oberlin College Press, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority. As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch's is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible...

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In these thoughtful, richly personal essays, Marianne Boruch takes a fresh view on old poets, considering such questions as how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams's poetry and how Edison's listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of poetics. Other essays explore how the car's danger and solitude helps us understand American poetry, and how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains....

Send a poet like Marianne Boruch to work in a cadaver lab and extraordinary poems come to life.

When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a youngMidwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty andrealization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip intothe American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission tounravel a tragic mystery. The narrator's path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resor...

Marianne Boruch's patience "allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw." --"Poetry"magazine

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Marianne Boruch's generous and gathering mind wanders through her poems--taking in, then turning around, a curious world

In her wry and riveting new collection, Marianne Boruch discovers things often taken for granted and holds them up to deceptively casual light, questioning them both mercilessly and mercifully. Employing a masterly range of tone and form, Boruch makes a sometimes strange but always revealing investigation of world and self, history and memory, resistance and release. Here a woman levitates behind a door as her daughter badly bangs out Mozart. ...

A rich gathering of evocative essays that link literature and the world beyond it