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"The Salt Ecstasies "is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
This generous volume of new and selected poems by Christopher Howell encompasses three decades of his distinguished work, drawing upon all of his previous books. Dreamless and Possible chronicles his wide range of interests, expressed by blending elements of the surreal with biography, imagist economy with a storyteller's informality. It also shows the development of his signature style, reflected, as poet Albert Goldbarth has written, in poems "connected by deep thought worn lightly, and by large vision writ in small details.
One of America's most beloved poets, Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. This volume includes the early poems that many consider her best along with later gems.
In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time."
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though
they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences
together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing.
The poems in the first section, Versed, play with vice and versa, the
perversity of human consciousness.