{"product_id":"the-if-borderlands-isbn-9781681370361","title":"The If Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of poems spanning the beloved Canadian poet's short but dazzling career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eElise Partridge’s poetry has been widely admired for its scrupulous truth to life and meticulous, glittering craft. Whether writing about family and friends, the natural world and the daily round, or serious illness, Partridge was, as Rosanna Warren has said, “a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line represents a new, glinting angle of thought. . . . The result is an art of eerie compassion and an almost hyper-realist perception of the small.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new collection includes all the poems that Partridge prepared for publication during her lifetime as well as a selection of uncollected or unpublished poems.\"Fortunately, the body of work [Partridge] left behind has been given a second life by New York Review Books...It's an astonishing book that should secure Partridge some readers  outside the mossy parapets of the poetry world. Like all great poets,  she deployed words in unusual and memorable ways. But she always aspired  to be clear, even entertaining...Like Plath, Partridge, at her darkest, was blazingly vivid. Her poetry  seemed made of magnifying glass, under which swam brilliant images and  metaphors.\" —Jason Guriel, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Friendship, houses, animals, new love—[Elise Partridge's] poetry made the most of these, as though early life’s eye was still present in certain places and moods. Elizabeth Bishop’s abiding influence is present here: Partridge’s poetry is the work of a consciousness feeling the variegated fabric of the world.\" —Anshuman Mody, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poetry world lost a bright source of formal and emotional dexterity when Elise Partridge passed away in 2015....I don’t know of any other poetry like this. Partridge’s ability to  combine the purely imaginative with the sociopolitical is bracing...they are simply solid poems that point, if anywhere, back into the  shared histories of poetry and language, and that is our true loss: a  poet with a clear-eyed sense of her tradition and how that tradition  also rides the edge of the future. In the end we’re left with the work.  And it shines.\" —Daniel Rzicznek, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe If Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e,  which collects the majority of the poems  Partridge wrote during her  lifetime, makes her achievement impossible  to ignore.... Many of these  poems may be written from the sickroom, but  the poet opens her senses  wide, leading to a rush of color—'Red digits  blink: morphine drip \/  Chest a gauzy snowpatch, itchy with tape'—and a  scramble to find a way  to capture it all.\" —Carmine Starnino, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In their ample, embracing, nuanced appetite for sensory experience, [Partridge’s] poems achieve an ardent, compassionate, and unsentimental vision.” —Robert Pinsky, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Partridge’s impressive poems pursue a careful thinker’s yearning for abandon, a loyal friend and partner’s wish for change. Attentive to fact, to what she sees and knows, Partridge nonetheless makes space for what is wild, outside and with us—for the fears and the blanks of chemotherapy, for sharp variations within (and without) frames of meter and rhyme, and for the welcome consistencies of married love. She has learned detail work, and patience, from Elizabeth Bishop, but she has made other virtues her own: riffs on familiar phrases open startling vistas and even her love poems get attractively practical. Hers is a welcome invitation: let’s listen in.” —Stephen Burt\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Partridge is a technical wizard for whom thinking and feeling are not separate activities. She is a hawk-like observer of the particular...many times ascending to pitch-perfect verse.” —Ken Babstock, \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Elise Partridge is a poet of brilliant precisions. Each line presents a new, glinting angle of thought. [Her] poems—good, tangy, and chunky on the tongue—somehow reflect life’s plenitude while maintaining their own spareness and balance. The result is an art of eerie compassion.” —Rosanna Warren\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “There is no cynicism or pretension here, only the authenticity that comes from careful study of both word and world.” —Stephanie Bolster\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A fully formed voice speaks in these poems that invite us to share their closely observed particulars—a hospitable voice, full of intelligence, good humour, candour, engagement. Each poem commands attention. Exemplary.” —Robyn Sarah, \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Reading [Partridge’s work], I find myself marveling at the luck of each person, place, thing, or circumstance, to have Elise Partridge’s exquisite and precise attention. And how lucky we are to get to listen in as she offers each of them her flawless ear.” —Jacqueline Osherow\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Elise Partridge brings the most mundane moments vividly to life.” —\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eElise Partridge\u003c\/b\u003e (1958–2015) was born in Philadelphia  and grew up nearby. After graduating from Harvard in 1981, she received a  second Bachelor of Arts from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a Marshall  Scholar. She returned to Harvard for a Master of Arts and then took a  degree in writing from Boston University. In 1992 she moved to  Vancouver, British Columbia, where she lived with her husband, a teacher  of medieval literature, for the rest of her life. She taught writing  and literature at several universities. \u003ci\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poems published in Canada. \u003ci\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 2009,  and was a finalist for the BC Book Prize that year. Her third book, \u003ci\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e,  was published in 2015. Partridge’s work has been anthologized in the  United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and has appeared  in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303377752293,"sku":"NP9781681370361","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370361.jpg?v=1767739902","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-if-borderlands-isbn-9781681370361","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}