Jennifer Grotz, Author Mariner Books $12.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-618-30246-8
Often set in the poet's home state, the poems of Jennifer Grotz's Cusp find their speaker looking on while ""Leaves in Lubbock curl/ into dark hands,"" ""Tornadoes keep West Texas flat,"" and ""Chest-deep in water in Corpus Christi/...Fish jerk ...
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Jennifer Grotz, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23 (80p) ISBN 978-0-547-44412-3
In the title poem of Grotz's second collection, "Memory meticulously stitches/ The market square." The square is in Krakow, a setting which dominates the book's first section, and the tone is a detached, patient recollection: "The city would begin...
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Jennifer Grotz. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $16 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-55597-730-6
The curiosities of a poet aren’t just for proof of the sublime, and Grotz (The Needle) finds reason for intellectually excavating even the simplest of objects and creatures, such as snow, scorpions, sundials, and poppies. Her poetry can be playful...
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Jennifer Grotz. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-64445-231-8
“I don’t know/ how we keep living in a world/ that never explains why,” Grotz (Window Left Open) writes in her ruminative and beautifully crafted fourth collection. Navigating love, grief, and the various losses one faces in a life, Grotz considers...
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