Dec 22, 2009
Jorie Graham is known primarily for her poetry.
In an era of lyric poetry in minor modes and moods, Jorie Graham’s work is strikingly grand in scope. Her imagination is both galactic and intensely particular, at times more reminiscent of Dante than of her contemporaries. She is also an extremely self-demanding poet, one who attempts to think where thought cannot seem to go, and to feel what seems too painful to feel. The poem, Graham has said, should be an act...
[The entire page is 4158 words long]
©2000-2009
Enotes.com Inc.
All Rights Reserved