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This April, receive a new poem every day plus extras like audio clips, broadsides, signed books, and information about all of your favorite Knopf poets.
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A Draft of Light
Written by John Hollander
Hardcover
978-0-307-26911-9 (0-307-26911-6)
April 2008
A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets.
Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird of “countless colors” calls to mind “the echo . . . / of an inner... Read more >>
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God's Silence
Written by Franz Wright
Trade Paperback
978-0-375-71081-0 (0-375-71081-7)
March 2008
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker... Read more >>
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Man and Camel
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback
978-0-375-71126-8 (0-375-71126-0)
March 2008
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Special Orders
Written by Edward Hirsch
Hardcover
978-0-307-26681-1 (0-307-26681-8)
March 2008
In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of... Read more >>
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In Praise of the Unfinished
Written by Julia Hartwig Translated by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter
Hardcover
978-0-307-26720-7 (0-307-26720-2)
March 2008
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as “the grande dame of Polish poetry” and named “one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her native Poland. With this career-spanning collection, we finally have a book of... Read more >>
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A Phone Call to the Future
Written by Mary Jo Salter
Hardcover
978-0-307-26718-4 (0-307-26718-0)
March 2008
Superb new poems from one of the major poets of her generation, along with a selection of the best from Mary Jo Salter’s previous award-winning collections.
In Mary Jo Salter’s poetry we have a unique blend of domestic drama and the grittier wider world. In the title poem, she reimagines the technological... Read more >>
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