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New in June: I Am Not Sidney Poitier and The Looking House
*Order any book online through the end of July, and Graywolf Press will donate a book to an organization that needs it, including places like Books for Africa, Girls Write Now, prisons, and libraries*
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
"Driven by the most sidesplitting dialogue this side of Catch-22, Everett's latest tells the story of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier who bears an uncanny resemblance to the famed actor. . . . Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative and satirical powers."
The Looking House by Fred Marchant
“In a time of a historical nightmare, Fred Marchant manages to give us
a lyrical impulse that consoles. Few American poets, these days, tell
us the truth. But Marchant’s new book gives us dwellings, tears,
tenderness, flood, escape. In a time of lies and mediocre ironies in
literature, here is the voice that is never afraid to say what matters.
This is the poetry of home, yes—but the many doors and windows in this
book first and foremost ‘teach the heart how to be a heart.’ I read
these poems with joy.”
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By Robert Hill “With evocative, freewheeling prose (“the run-on sentences that were
her married life”), Hill…nimbly salvages one family's striving from an
era of grasping and consumerism.” —Publishers Weekly
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By Vijay Seshadri Now available in paperback!
Winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award, Vijay Seshadri’s extraordinary second
collection, The Long Meadow,
looks into and through our troubled world by means of a poetic
sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into
possibility.
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By Jane Kenyon "Kenyon writes prose the way she writes poetry, turning simple or
frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they
offer us to love."—The New Yorker
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By Katie Ford "Moving and mysterious, the poems in Ford's first collection possess the
veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night." —The New York Times Book Review
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By W.D. Snodgrass "Shrewdly provocative, the anthology teaches and keeps on teaching....
letting poetry speak for itself and ward off amateurish interlopers." —Ruminator Review
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