Campbell McGrath
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A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets-a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.
XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems-one per year-written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao,...
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A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets
Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he's headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous work-lyric...
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"An unexpected story and a gem of a book."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The incomparable Campbell McGrath, whom Outside magazine calls, "A writer who could help save poetry from academia and get the rest of us reading it again," delivers an astounding work: Shannon, an epic poem that traces the remarkable journey of the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Kansas City Star praises Shannon as, "A luminescent narrative…a myth...
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An ant to the stars
or stars to the ant-which is
more irrelevant?
Weekend Jet Skiers-
rude to call them idiots,
yes, but facts are facts.
Clamor of seabirds
as the sun falls-I look up
and ten years have passed."
-from "Dawn Notebook"
Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose,...