Jorie Graham at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Jorie Graham —Boylston Chair Emerita at Harvard University and the Pulitzer-prize winning poet—for a discussion of her new poetry collection, Killing Spree. She will be joined in conversation by Stephanie Burt —Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Super Gay Poems and Don’t Read Poetry . About Killing Spree A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it , more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing” ( The New York Times ). In a review of her first book, Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts (1980), The New York Times heralded Jorie Graham as a “poet of large ambitions and reckless music.” In the fifteen collections that have followed, she has remade the lyric’s ability to capture our recklessly disintegrating and accelerating daily realities. In Killing Spree , perhaps the most unflinching book of her long career, Graham looks at how the human spirit—in the face of everything that threatens it—navigates the rapids of extreme change. These newly spare…