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Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston... show more

Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.
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Birth date: May 09, 1950
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learn by going
learn by going rated it 9 years ago
My tastes in poetry appear to change more rapidly than with fiction (or non-fiction). In the latter case, I'd say moving from young adult stuff and more genre fiction into mostly literary fiction in college and beyond has been the biggest change. With poetry, it feels like every half dozen years I f...
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SJane rated it 19 years ago
I didn't enjoy this one bit. I guess the second star is in recognition of what it must have taken to write these poems, which were pretty much beyond me.
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Part of my poetry binge reading. The poems tend to be longer, which allows for some interesting development of theme. Mostly, one more parameter space in getting caught up to speed in modern poetry!
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