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“Midwood makes clear and unmistakable the increasing singularity of [Jana Prikryl’s] artistry.” —Nathan Blansett, Los Angeles Review of Books Midwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called “one of the most original voices of her generation.” In her third book, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance. Balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflection, Midwood subtly but impiously explores love and sex and marriage and motherhood in plain, urgent language. Written for the most part early every morning over the course of a year, in all its changing seasons, Midwood includes a series of poems looking at and talking to trees; Prikryl’s careful attention to the ordinary world outside the window forms an alternative measure of time that leafs and ramifies. With their rapid shifts of scale and unusual directness, these poems find a new language for confronting our moment.
"A truly moving book." —John Ashbery Jana Prikryl’s The After Party journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City, from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl’s ambitious experimentation with style. “Thirty Thousand Islands,” the second half of the collection, presents some forty linked poems that incorporate numerous voices. Rooted in one place that fragments into many places—the remote shores of Lake Huron in Canada, a region with no natural resources aside from its beauty—these poems are an elegy that speaks beyond grief. Penetrating, vital, and visionary, The After Party marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
To Jacob, From Deborah Erlichson From a mother to her son: You are my first born, My son who I have sworn to love. When you smiled at me for the first time, No doubt, you are a part of me, Can't you see? My unconditional love for you is immeasurable, Yet it was and is so pleasurable! I fed you, bathed you, and took care of you when you were sick, You were and still are my heart and soul; you loved lollipops & favored every lick. You are my inspiration and my joy, So why displace it with a ploy? You are married now and have your own life, Please don't disregarded me and give me strife. When you don't call me to ask me how I feel, It makes me sick like a sunburn getting ready to peel. You are a great father and good husband, And so glad and so proud of you. All of my eternal Love, Mom
An urgent, visionary collection of poems from the author of The After Party “One of the most original voices of her generation.”—James Wood NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE PARIS REVIEW Jana Prikryl’s No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the point of decline and fall. Conjured by voices alternately ardent, caustic, grieving, but always watchful, these soliloquies move from free verse through sonnets and invented forms, insisting that every demolition builds something new and unforeseen. In reactionary times, these poems say, we each have a responsibility to use our imagination. No Matter is an elegy for our ongoing moment, when what seemed permanent suddenly appears to be on the brink of disappearing.
Beloved American poet Robert Frost's first three books, in one collection This volume presents Frost’s first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems,including "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "Home Burial," "The Oven Bird," "Birches," and "The Road Not Taken." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Longleaf Pine, a Southern journal of the arts, publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography with an emphasis on the American South. "Haints and Haunts" is the focus of the Autumn issue. What memories haunt us? Who or what pricks at us, insisting that we change? What places have a hold over us, transform us, or repel us? What fears or obsessions are we unable—or unwilling—to let go of? Through poetry, prose, and photographs, our contributors explore these themes.
“A rich comedic portrait of American family life, public schools, and politics.” —The Caravaggio Art Center Bulletin “Sexual dysfunction and presidential stupidity have never been so sadly riveting and distressingly familiar.” —Welders Weekly Gazette “A perfect representation of postmodern despair: hopeless civic cynicism and individual apathy produce a sense of futility that recent cultural history more than seems to justify. ... A must-read.” —Nihilism Next