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Laurie Sheck is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Black Series and The Willow Grove, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work appears widely in such journals as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Verse, and Boston Review. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Sheck has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is a 2006–7 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She teaches in the MFA Program... Read More
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Format: Trade Paperback, 500 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2003
Price: $19.95
THE ORIGINAL Poem a Day has sold more than fifty thousand copies and is still going strong. It is a perennial gift-giving favorite and a word-of-mouth sensation among those who want poetry to be a greater presence in their lives. Like its predecessor, Poem a Day, Volume 2 offers a verse... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $25.00
I feel a pleasure of never contained sweep over me, now that I know place is never
Clear or wholly settled, not even the veins on the underside of a leaf, its freedoms.
At once tender and fierce, concise and associative, Laurie Sheck’s Captivity charts and explores the textures and movements of...
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $17.00
In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. “I can... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $13.00
Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear "into the undertow... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $28.00
What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein’s monster at all but had met him when she was a girl of eight sitting by her mother’s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being she’d discovered at a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood.
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