[To] the Last [Be] Human Jorie

Graham

ISBN 9781800172937

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £19.99

introduction by R obert M

‘A mesmerising American voice; one wants to hear its continuation’

THE NEW YORKER

PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 330pp

TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

• Prize-winning nature writer Robert Macfarlane, in his introduction, describes these poems as ‘rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience.’

• Graham, one of the most celebrated living American poets, was winner of the Forward Prize 2012 and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1996

• Collects the four remarkable books Jorie Graham has published with Carcanet since 2008: Sea Change, Place, fast and Runaway (shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Ecological Writing)

• Captures her signature line and attention to our global climate – a lyric ‘Anthropocene journal’ written from within the ‘New Climactic Regime’

About The Author

Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950. She was raised in Rome and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and most recently Runaway (2020).

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