Edited by Askold Melnyczuk and the poety panel of AGNI magazine, Take Three: 2 is the second in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.
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Agni literary magazine is known for fine poetry. For poetry lovers, it's a treat to be shown the work of up-and-coming, cutting edge poets that you might otherwise miss. This book, second in the series of Agni's introductions, includes the work of three vibrant, emerging poets: Susan Aizenberg ("Peru"), a New York-to-Nebraska transplant and current editor of the Nebraska Review; Mark Turpin ("Nailer"), a California carpenter poet; and Suzanne Qualls ("Beauty, and Instinct"), a performance artist who is also from California. You'll be moved and entertained by Aizenberg's startlingly lyrical imagery, Qualls's wicked sense of closure, and Turpin's wise observations spiked with wit.
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Take Susan Aizenberg: "Susan Aizenberg is a writer of rare promise, in part because her stance is a refreshing balance of toughness--a take-no-prisoners attitude--and a deftly fluent lyricality. . . . These are bracing and haunted lyrics, which send 'clear notes up the fire escape.'"--David Wojahn
"These poems thrill me. They're bullets of white light illuminating the tumble of perception and longing, the insolite and edgy beauty of 'the lives we really have.'"--Belle Waring
Take Mark Turpin: "Mark Turpin's marvelous poems about people at work make a contribution to American literature: they have a tender, grave moral awarness like Thomas Hardy's, with a lyrical wit and invention grounded in observation like Elizabeth Bishop's. I love reading and re-reading these poems. They refresh and enlarge my idea of poetry."--Robert Pinsky
"Mark Turpin's poetry is both substantial in texture and speculative in direction, with a wonderful tautness and intensity."--Thom Gunn
Take Suzanne Qualls: "Forthrightness, pungency, passion intensified by a disabused eye--Suzanne Qualls's poems testify to a mystery, and take the reader to the sorrowing, generous edge 'where the force of world upon world narrowed the distinction between earth and sky.' You have a great pleasure ahead."--Frank Bidart
"Subtlety and directness, wicked comedy and understated pathos: here is grace in a new form, and passion in a new key. Qualls's poems deserve widespread, intense attention."--Robert Pinsky
"These poems thrill me. They're bullets of white light illuminating the tumble of perception and longing, the insolite and edgy beauty of 'the lives we really have.'"--Belle Waring
Take Mark Turpin: "Mark Turpin's marvelous poems about people at work make a contribution to American literature: they have a tender, grave moral awarness like Thomas Hardy's, with a lyrical wit and invention grounded in observation like Elizabeth Bishop's. I love reading and re-reading these poems. They refresh and enlarge my idea of poetry."--Robert Pinsky
"Mark Turpin's poetry is both substantial in texture and speculative in direction, with a wonderful tautness and intensity."--Thom Gunn
Take Suzanne Qualls: "Forthrightness, pungency, passion intensified by a disabused eye--Suzanne Qualls's poems testify to a mystery, and take the reader to the sorrowing, generous edge 'where the force of world upon world narrowed the distinction between earth and sky.' You have a great pleasure ahead."--Frank Bidart
"Subtlety and directness, wicked comedy and understated pathos: here is grace in a new form, and passion in a new key. Qualls's poems deserve widespread, intense attention."--Robert Pinsky
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