{"product_id":"killing-spree-poems","title":"Killing Spree: Poems","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, including \n\u003ci\u003eTo 2040\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003e The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her work has been widely translated and is the recipient of multiple awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Forward Prize, the Nonino International Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable. . . [O]ne of the few books of poetry that register the profound struggle of consciousness in our damaged world -- poems grasping at what we still call 'human experience, ' as its horizon recedes from us.\" --Sandra Simonds, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The Pulitzer winner's 16th collection is startling, unsettling and timely. These spare, exquisitely precise poems depict a kind of wasteland where hope has been halted, in which a narrator looks back to a lost time. . .\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e (best books of 2026) \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eIt is clear that the poet's sense of her work in the world is to look both inward and outward, in order to help us face and potentially ameliorate the catastrophe toward which our \n\u003ci\u003eKilling Spree\u003c\/i\u003e propels us--and that makes Graham's work essential and enriching right now.\" --Laura Mullen, \n\u003ci\u003eCalifornia Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Timely and powerful, this is a masterful addition to Graham's oeuvre.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose \"great body of work . . . has so much in it\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003emore of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a review of her first book, \n\u003ci\u003eHybrids of Plants and Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003e(1980), \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eheralded Jorie Graham as a \"poet of large ambitions and reckless music.\" In the fifteen collections that followed, she has sought to remake the lyric's ability to capture our recklessly disintegrating and accelerating daily realities. Now, in perhaps the most unflinching book of her long career, Graham explores how the human spirit, in the face of everything that threatens it, might navigate the rapids of extreme change. In these newly spare poems she enacts, with exquisite formal precision, how we might remain intact under conditions--ecological, political, technological--set to destroy what we've come to know as our world. \n\u003ci\u003eCan we lose our humanity\u003c\/i\u003e, these poems ask, \n\u003ci\u003eCan it be taken from us, Will we surrender it without resistance?\u003c\/i\u003e Extraordinary and haunting, \n\u003ci\u003eKilling Spree\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a survival manual guiding us deftly through the cataracts of a runaway climate, tipping-point violence, and out-of-control technology, into a terrain where a defiant, powerful imagination (and love) of the world reveals itself. Here is a poet truly at the height of her powers. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/16\/2026 (EAN 9780374618025, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780374618025, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eGraham, Jorie\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Her poetry has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Nonino Prize, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She lives in Massachusetts and is Boylston Chair Emerita at Harvard University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496025719062,"sku":"9780374618025","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780374618025.jpg?v=1783050928","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/killing-spree-poems","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}