Overlord

“Graham is one of those rare poets who not only has created a language and poetic structure all her own, but who seeks to redefine herself with each new book. Restless, unsatisfied, hungering for a further truth, she offers meditations in NEVER that are nothing less than dazzling.” - San Diego Union-Tribune“Her syntax fires like synapses. Take her labyrinthine poems the way Frost said to look at a star that fades when stared at. If we focus on a spot beside it, the light will swim into the eye and, as Graham words it, ‘silver into place.’” - Seattle Weekly“Fierce, brilliant, implacable.” - Los Angeles Times“Like Wallace Stevens, Graham is a metaphysical poet who loves landscape and can’t help but address a higher power even as she questions every aspect of existence. More aware than ordinary mortals of the fine net of life, Graham ponders the dynamic of “inner feeling up against living force”.” - Booklist“Stunning… Forthright, compassionate and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty… Graham writes with breathtaking precision.” - Booklist (starred review)

Jorie Graham is the author of fourteen collections of poems. She has been widely translated and has been 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.