Bücher von Grace Schulman

Exquisite new work along with a selection of her finest poems spanning five decades from the essential poet and national treasure, Frost Medal winner Grace Schulman.Again, the Dawn draws together poems fromeight books plus a generous selection of new poems. In them, Grace Schulmanhears the call to praise tempered by stark details of city life such astrumpets that blare "louder than street sirens." and iron fences / handwrought with lyres, Greek frets,acanthus leaves.? Schulman brings passion andintelligence to bear on occasions she ponders, whether historical orcontemporary. In joy and in grief, she gazes at the light and sees themajesty in ordinary things. This collection ranges across decades of prize-winning books, and yet, as its title exclaims, the poetry ofGrace Schulman is as new as the rising sun. As Julie Sheehan has written of her most recent volume, ?Read this collection if you, too, have grieved. Read it if youneed your own guide to the underworld. Read it if you've ever felt proud to getat the meaning of poems, of art, of music. Read it if you want to be restoredto the world around you, if late-stage capitalism or imperialism or politicshave numbed you. Read it, then look up, breathe in, raise your own hands, andlet Grace Schulman assure you: 'I'll be there, / gazing impiously - unless / thatis what sacred is, the work, the looking up, / the wonder.'?

One of the finest poets writing today, Grace Schulman finds order in art and nature that enables her to stand fast in a threatened world. The title refers to Itzhak Perlman's performance of a violin concerto with a snapped string, which inspires a celebration of life despite limitations. For her, song imparts endurance: Thelonious Monk evokes Creation; John Coltrane's improvisations embody her own heart's desire to ?get it right on the first take?; the wind plays a harp-shaped oak; and her immigrant ancestors remember their past by singing prayers on a ship bound for New York. In the words of Wallace Shawn, ?When I read her, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it.?

Attesting to Grace Schulman's gifts for her craft, Days of Wonder collects verse spanning nearly three decades, including ten new poems and selections from the poet's four previous collections. Schulman's well-crafted lyrics contain equal portions of reverence and lament, praise and joy. Many of her poems communicate a sense of wonder at the beauty of the world, with references to painters and poets and religion. As William Stafford has written, Schulman "renews our faith in ourselves and in the language we use for finding each other."

Grace Schulman's fourth collection of poetry, THE PAINTINGS OF OUR LIVES, celebrates earthly things while discovering inner lives. Here are poems of love and marriage -- including a psalm for the poet's anniversary and a portrayal of her parents dancing during the Depression -- and poems identifying with the hungers, sorrows, and joys of Chaim Soutine, Margaret Fuller, Paul Celan, and Henry James. In the final sonnet sequence, Schulman confronts her mother's death, calling on the art of many cultures to illuminate the universality of grief.