G. E. Murray, Author, Ira Sadoff, Author University of Illinois Press $34.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-252-02834-2
From noting that ""I've Always Despised the Wetlands"" to channeling Mahler's ""Kindertotenlieder,"" the trade-offs of Ira Sadoff's latest collection, Barter, lead to semi-ironic leaps of diction, ""cherubim on bicycles/ painted over with a dog...
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Ira Sadoff, Author University of Illinois Press $15.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-252-06737-2
A tentative, moody toughness runs through Sadoff's poems, wrenching them into odd shapes, and showing the poet to be suspicious of epiphany even as he courts it. At heart, though, Sadoff (Emotional Traffic) is a romantic, and many of the poems here...
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Ira Sadoff, Author University of Illinois Press $15.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-252-07120-1
From noting that ""I've Always Despised the Wetlands"" to channeling Mahler's ""Kindertotenlieder,"" the trade-offs of Ira Sadoff's latest collection, Barter, lead to semi-ironic leaps of diction, ""cherubim on bicycles/ painted over with a dog...
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Ira Sadoff, Author University Press of New England $18.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-87451-593-0
While the poetry included here has been chosen from previous collections, the stories and essays appear in book form for the first time. Instead of enlarging the reader's understanding of Sadoff's ( Emotional Traffic ) scope, however, this volume...
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Ira Sadoff. BOA Editions (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-934414-82-8
“I think I want everyone and everything to be loved so much/ I get dour,” Sadoff writes in his eighth collection. Sadoff sees himself and others with acute awareness, probing at the world’s imperfections until he reaches something spiritual he calls
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Ira Sadoff. Alice James, $16.95 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-948579-10-0
Sadoff (History Matters) considers the relationship between the individual and the collective in his formally dexterous eighth collection. Here, forms change shape before the reader’s eyes, from prose poems, to couplets, to luminous fragments. The...
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