As Umbrellas Follow Rain

Ashbery, John, with Cover Illustration by Tom Burckhardt

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Poetry. This new collection of poems from George Stanley includes his acclaimed "White Matches" and "Paradise Shelter" as well as other selections spanning his remarkable oeuvre. "From the first, George Stanley was one of those great natural talents of whom all other poets are jealous. There is an ease and deftness to his line, his sense of tone, the acuity of his vision that is so constantly on target as to be eerie"—Ron Silliman.

A Tall, Serious Girl: Selected Poems 1957-2000

Literature & Fiction

Stanley, George

Poetry

Cultural Writing. Essays on art. THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM spans nearly twenty years of poet, critic, and professor Bill Berkson's career as an art writer. The essays in this volume include "Thiebaud's Vanities," "Invocations of the Surge Protector," "Hung Liu, Action Painter," "What the Ground Looks Like" and many more. "Bill Berkson's THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM is an indispensable text for anyone interested in late-twentieth-century culture. As a poet and critic of these times, as a witness and intimate participant, Berkson writes out of his own taste and experience, but never about it. His devotion to the seriousness and importance of his subjects is the very essence of modesty and felicity. As a consequence, his most casual opinion bears the weight of thoughtful moral authority. This is a wonderful book"--Dave Hickey.

The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003

Berkson, Bill

Arts & Photography

Poetry. Author of numerous books of short stories and award-winning travel and nature essays Merrill Gilfillan is a poet of remarkable vision, insight and accomplishment. His poems speak of the natural world: earth, sky, water, and all the complexities and contradictions of human presence in that world. Jim Harrison said of Gilfillan's most recent book of essays, Rivers & Birds, "If anyone writes better prose in American I am unaware of it." SMALL WEATHERS is Gilfillan's tenth and largest collection of new work. Tom Raworth has this to say about Merrill's poems-"If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems; evocative, sophisticated and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be." Cover art by Win Knowlton

Small Weathers

Gilfillan, Merrill

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