Region Of Unlikeness (American Poetry Series) [Hardcover]

Jorie Graham (Author)

Book Description

Series: American Poetry Series | Publication Date: April 21, 1991

Book description to come.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

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Act 3, Sc. 2
At The Cabaret Now
Chaos
Detail From The Creation
Detail From The Creation Of Man
Fission
From The New World
The Hiding Place
History
History
Holy Shroud
Immobilism
Manifest Destiny
The Marriage
The Phase After History: 1
The Phase After History: 2
The Phase After History: 3
Picnic
The Region Of Unlikeness
Short History Of The West
Soul Says
Spring
The Tree Of Knowledge
Untitled
What Is Called Thinking: After Trakl
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 1
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 2
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 3
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 4
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 5
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 6
Who Watches From The Dark Porch: 7
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Jorie Graham has received numerous awards for her work, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994. She was recently appointed Boylston Professor at Harvard University and currently divides her time between Iowa and Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 130 pages
• Publisher: Ecco; 1 edition (April 21, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880012714
• ISBN-13: 978-0880012713
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,201,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars operatic...cinematic, April 7, 2003

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I X Key "burningfield" (tomorrow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Region of Unlikeness (American Poetry Series) (Paperback)

The book starts at the movies, & throughout there are voice-overs & further cinematic detail. But that's hardly what this book is about. Sort of a step down in difficultness from her previous book, The End of Beauty -- but still difficult & also beautiful conceptually, emotionally, musically, in a modern way.... This book also has some of the most important poems of her career, & a lot of very interesting experiments that didn't get into her selected poems. For me, honestly, not a favorite Jorie Graham book, but a good one. At the time of this review, the only other review rated this 4 stars. I just gave it 5 so the average review could be 4 1/2.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Jorie's Operatic Form, March 14, 2000

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crumbcake (Rhinebeck, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Region Of Unlikeness (American Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

The "difficulty" of Jorie Graham: of course she's difficult--why such a prize given to "easy"? Region of Unlikeness reads like an opera --like an opera, the language is dense, powerful, beautiful (though not, in this case, in another language--though some of Graham's critics might say otherwise!--), like the arias of an opera the poems are "staged," they are costumed and choreographed and possess dramatic urges not easily contained in a lyric form. Like James Merrill, like the best of Louise Gluck and the strangest of Jean Valentine, Jorie Graham seems to be negotiating unfriendly turf between lyric, narrative, and "language" poetries--with satisfying, puzzling, entrancing results. Even if someone has convinced you that there is nothing much interesting about Jorie Graham (that "difficult" woman!) give this book a try--it is perhaps the most traditionally (if one dares use that word to apply to Graham!) lyric and narrative of her later, 'experimental' work.