Erosion
by Jorie Graham
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From Erosion: SAN SEPOLCRO Jorie Graham ? . . . . How clean the mind is, holy grave. It is this girl by Pierodella Francesca, unbuttoning her blue dress, her mantle of weather, to go into labor. Come, we can go in .It is before the birth of god. No-one has risen yet to the museums, to the assembly line bodies and wings to the open air market. This is what the living do: go in. It's a long way. And the dress keeps opening from eternity to privacy, quickening. Inside, at the heart, is tragedy, show more the present moment forever stillborn, but going in, each breath is a button coming undone, something terribly nimble-fingered finding all of the stops. Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California. She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980. show lessTags
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The last collection of Graham's I could understand all the way through. Prodigious talent on the part of arguably the most important American woman poet of the 20th century.
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Jorie Graham is the author of fifteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.
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