Radiance, Joe Osterhaus's second collection of verse, is a startlingly unique volume of poems. Graceful and formal, lyric and meditative, Osterhaus's poems employ the rigors of traditional English-language poetic form and, in doing so, display an extraordinary sophistication, reveal the beauty of his mastery and capture the essence of our human integrity. These poems are imaginative in their treatment of their subjects, which are often common and mundane, and thereby reveal, illuminate and surprise us into knowing something new (or something we already knew) about our American lives. A poet's poet, Osterhaus's Radiance is a superb addition to the American canon.

Radiance: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Osterhaus, Joe

Poetry

William Ralph Pr

Take Three Poets
Take Thomas Sayers Ellis: Ellis's fractured syntax, his spasmodic, staccato utterance suggest a defiant sensibility. Indeed, at the center of Ellis's work is the figure of an aggressive father, taunting his son into song. Thomas Sayers Ellis was a founding member of Boston's Dark Room Collective and coeditor of AGNI's successful poetry anthology, On the Verge
Take Larissa Szporluk: This poet stalks a landscape that is humid, stylized, Southern. The poet Gregory Orr says of her work: "Faced with such rending beauty, such ravished lucidity, all we can do is stand back and gaze with gratitude and awe." Larissa Szporluk studied at the Iows Writers' Workshop, has taught at Bowling Green State University, and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Take Joe Osterhaus: Unabashedly intellectual and demanding, Osterhaus's verse displays a rare elegance. According to David St. John, "these precise meditations are dazzling for their ability to touch the seemingly ordinary moments of a life and find in them the materials of both miracle and change." Joe Osterhaus has published in such places as the Antioch Review, the Boston Review, and the Nebraska Review, and he currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Edited by Askold Melnyczuk and the poetry panel of AGNI magazine, Take Three is the first in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.

Take Three: Agni New Poets Series: 1 (The Agni New Poets Series , No 1)

Szporluk, Larissa

Ellis, Thomas Sayers

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