{"product_id":"errancy-isbn-9780880015295","title":"Errancy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham returns with great clarity and passion to her lyrical roots—and builds a rich musical meditation on desire.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, Graham approaches a host of characters, each of them an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political, or spiritual desire—desire searching for its place in an age of betrayed values, an age when dreaming has been rubbed thin by reason, frayed by the speed of facts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere error is explored as an heroic form of finding one’s way—a wandering toward truth, a pilgrimage guided by the body’s strictest longing, here lovers stay alive in sexually-charged encounters; here, too, angels are overheard muttering warnings. Here are Pascal and his wager, Akhmatova and her refusal, and a few soldiers sleeping before a sepulcher while something incomprehensible happens behind their backs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative in its spirited merging of the sacred and the skeptical, the celestial and the earthly, The Errancy confirms Graham as “one of our best, most important” poets (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) and “one of the best, and most intelligent, poets in the language” (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePoems exploring the theme of sexual, emotional, political, and spiritual desire through the eyes of a poet's characters examine the age in which we live, where dreams are not as easy as they once were. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A recent profile of Graham in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e places her in the lineage of Eliot, Bishop, and Ashbery rather than William Carlos Williams or Robert Creeley, but it might be posited that her capacious talent now draws on all these examples: the bodiless virtuosity of formal mastery has met the flexibility and passion of the mind and eye at liberty. \u003cem\u003eThe Errancy\u003c\/em\u003e is what might be called, among the Quakers, a leading: Graham shows us a future direction in American poetry, and that future is a welcome place.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few poets address the predicament of the postmodern soul as rigorously or as intelligently as Graham .. ..'an icy thing, even in its fluency,' this masterful collection takes risks in naming 'the small hole inside I'm supposed to love' and coldly, bleakly and dazzlingly succeeds.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For two decades now, Graham's poems have been exercising the major muscles in the throat of our language. If you haven't been listening, I'm telling you there's a new music out there, and this book, \u003cem\u003eThe Errancy\u003c\/em\u003e, is its finest performance.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887442653413,"sku":"NP9780880015295","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780880015295.jpg?v=1730226125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/errancy-isbn-9780880015295","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}