{"product_id":"dream-of-the-unified-field-isbn-9780880014762","title":"Dream Of The Unified Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor this major collection, spanning twenty years of writing (1974-1994), Jorie Graham has made a generous selection from her five previous volumes of poetry: \u003cem\u003eHybrids of Plants and of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eErosion, The End of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRegion of Unlikeness\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMaterialism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages we witness the maturation and evolution of a startling and searching poetic voice. \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003edescribed Graham's first book, \u003cem\u003eHybrids of Plants and of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e, as announcing \"a poet of large ambitions and reckless music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith each succeeding book, she has enlarged the poems' reach and scope and sought out new thematic and stylistic territory. David St. John, writing in \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, recognized that, with \u003cem\u003eThe End of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRegion of Unlikeness\u003c\/em\u003e, Jorie Graham \"emerged as one of our most highly imaginative and innovative poets.\" And of \u003cem\u003eMaterialism\u003c\/em\u003e, he said, \"[her] speculative and sensual poetry... echoes an aesthetic and cultural past but is, truly, like nothing we've seen before.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the sizable body of praise for her work, James Tate has added, \"Jorie Graham is a poet of staggering intelligence. Her poems are constantly on the attack. She assays nothing less than the whole body of our history reshaping myth in ways that risk new knowledge, fresh understanding of all that we might hope to be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's \u003cem\u003eThe Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994\u003c\/em\u003e spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: \u003cem\u003eHybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMaterialism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Jorie Graham's poems are philosophically and historically alert, and their acts of thought arise with almost instinctual urgency from an astonished responsiveness that in itself becomes part of what she names 'the vivid performance of the present.'... Reaching with quickened sensitivity for poetry's supply of the associative, sonic, and formal properties rustling beyond mere denotation, she also develops a genius for apprehending and scrutinizing human perceptions, reflections, and desires.....Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best, and most intelligent, poets in the language.... She is like no one else, neither in her rhythms nor in her insistence on opening up, scrutinizing, and even reversing our experience of time and space.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection, read beginning to end, read as a kind of novel, as a roman, is breathtakingly clear, crystalline, and compelling.... Those of us who knew best the more recent large and complex Graham poems are now invited to reread the earlier, and to see in them, perhaps for the first time, their full complexities and compulsions.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everything comes together here - the voice like the wind that somehow marshalls itself out of kitchen daydreams and prosaic events into utterance that swings with the conviction of Blake's... [Graham] is one of the finest poets writing today.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Graham's complex, faceted poems glint powerfully with compressed energy and suggest another meaning for the term atmospheric pressure.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887437377765,"sku":"NP9780880014762","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780880014762.jpg?v=1730226117","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dream-of-the-unified-field-isbn-9780880014762","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}