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Runaway: New Poems Audiobook
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
A collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham
In her formidable and clairvoyant collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not?
Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present—a now—in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, “counting silently towards infinity.” Graham’s essential voice guides us fluently “as we pass here now into the next-on world,” what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us “to the last be human.”
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"“A bravura performance that probes the present for what the future will bring…Through her signature urgent questioning, Graham makes plain the psychic and physical cost to humans of wrecking the Earth.”"
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Graham juxtaposes individual experience with an almost incomprehensible scale of disaster with an urgency and an attention so exceptional it comes out as tenderness.”
— The Guardian (London)
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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A Chicago Tribune Pick of Fall Books
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About Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham is the author of fifteen collections of poems that have been widely translated and received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the International Nonino Prize. She holds an MFA degree in poetry from the University of Iowa, and she teaches at Harvard University.