Poem: ‘Day Off’
Jorie Graham, 3 January 2008
from the cadaver beginning to show through the skin of the day. The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to – just for a...
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94. Her other collections include The End of Beauty, P L A C E and Runaway. To 2040 came out last year.
Poem: ‘Untitled’
Jorie Graham, 25 February 2010
Of the two dogs the car hit, one, two, while we were talking, and thinking about how to change each other’s mind, the other...
Poem: ‘On the Virtue of the Dead Tree’
Jorie Graham, 24 June 2010
And that you hold the same one hawk each day I pass through my field up. And that it may choose its spot so freely, from which to scan, and, without more than the wintry beguiling...
Poem: ‘The Bird on My Railing’
Jorie Graham, 21 October 2010
From the still wet iron of...
Poem: ‘Dialogue (of the Imagination’s Fear)’
Jorie Graham, 3 March 2011
All around in houses near us, the layoffs, the windows shine back sky, it is a wonder we...
Pieces about Jorie Graham in the LRB
Indigo, Cyanine, Beryl: Jorie Graham’s Daring
Helen Vendler, 23 January 2003
The new volume of poems by my Harvard colleague Jorie Graham, in its US edition, bears on its jacket a detail from Vermeer’s The Astronomer, showing the hand of the astronomer as it...
Accidents of Priority
John Redmond, 22 August 1996
Famous poems, like faces, are a particularly memorable kind of introduction to the person they conceal. Like other kinds of introduction, they are often what we remember a person for, or what we...
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