In a 1992 interview with Thomas Gardner, Jorie Graham told him, "I feel like I'm writing as part of a group of poets--historically--who are potentially at the end of the medium itself as a vital part ...
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In the following excerpt, Frost reviews Materialism and explores Graham's manipulation of Western philosophy, praising her handling of difficult ideas.
Jorie Graham, a Euro-American, ponders &#...
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In the excerpt below, Holden praises Graham's use of intellectualism and tone in Materialism.
Jorie Graham, in Materialism, runs the same risks as [Patricia] Goedicke—higher risks becaus...
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In the review below, Longenbach praises Graham's writing in The Errancy as mature and argues that it is her best work to date.
Jorie Graham stands among a small group of poets (Dickinson, Hopki...
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In the review below, Melnyczuk compares Erosion to Graham's earlier writing and finds the poems in Erosion more urgent and arresting.
Fishing for subjects in her first book, Hybrids of Plants a...
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In the following, excerpt, Boruch praises Graham's poems for their mystical, abstract quality.
In Recitative's interview with Donald Sheehan, Merrill makes the distinction between Eliot,...
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In the following excerpt, Vendler argues that Graham expands on her earlier work, pushing forward her style of lyrical poetry.
Like [Adrienne] Rich, Jorie Graham, a younger poet now teaching at the Un...
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In the review below, Costello argues that while Graham's style has changed in her first four books, her philosophical quest remains the same.
"Poetry implicitly undertakes a critique of ...
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In the following essay, Costello considers the visual images at the center of the poetry in Erosion.
Jorie Graham emerged in the 1980s as a major poet, distinguished for her philosophical depth, her s...
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In the review below, Jarman compares The End of Beauty to Region of Unlikeness, praising the former but finding the form and content of the poems incompatible with those of the later collection.
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In the following review of Materialism, Vendler discusses Graham's rhythm structure and the connection between structure and subject in these poems.
Jorie Graham, brought up in Italy by America...
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In the following review of The Dream of the Unified Field, Sacks praises Graham as a writer who is pushing poetry in new directions.
"Man has already begun to overwhelm the entire earth and its...
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In the following excerpt, Ulmer offers a favorable assessment of The End of Beauty, stressing the influences on Graham's poetry.
Graham's The End of Beauty and Voight's The Lotus ...
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In the following essay, Spiegelman discusses Graham's poetics in her earlier books, specifically how she experiments with ways of viewing the world.
“Description is an element, like air ...
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In the following essay, Molesworth explores Graham's poetics and detects both lyric and philosophical strains in her works.
What does it feel like to read a poem by Jorie Graham? What do we nee...
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In the following essay, Casper provides a short profile of Graham through a discussion of several of her books.
Jorie Graham is the kind of poet whose life is nothing less than cinematic. She was born...
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In the following review, Klink offers a detailed examination of several of the poems from Graham's 2001 book, Swarm.
And out of what one sees and hears and out Of what one feels, who could have...
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In the following essay, Gardner focuses on three modernist poems by Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot, and the ways that Graham engages them in the poems in The End of Beauty.
In a 1987 i...
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In the following review, Jarman surveys the first four of Graham's books of poetry: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, and Region of Unlikeness.
“The serpent be...
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In the following review, Isaacson discusses Materialism, commenting on Graham's incorporation of earlier material—her own, as well as others'—into the poems in this volume....
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In the following essay, Shifrer explores the influence of painters—their processes as well as their paintings themselves—on Graham's poetry.
Poems about paintings are abundant in ...
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In the following essay, Hudgins examines several poems from Graham's second book, Erosion, and considers how her work has evolved psychologically and philosophically.
In her first five books, f...
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In the following review of The Dream of the Unified Field, Irwin traces Graham's development and investigates recurring themes in her works.
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For over twenty years Jorie Graham has been produ...
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In the following essay, Longenbach provides an in-depth examination of Graham's first four books of poems, exploring the relationship between language and sensation in these works.
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In the following essay, Quinn views Graham's poetic works as following a tradition that seeks to capture moments of Emersonian transcendence, while at the same time attempting to remain involve...
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In the following review, Ramke offers a comparison of Graham's and James Tate's poetry, observing that both are uniquely American yet “seem sometimes to belong to no nation, no pa...
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Jorie Graham
