Jill Bialosky, Author . Knopf $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-41314-8
This second collection follows 1997's well-received The End of Desire
and comes bespangled with impressive encomia from the likes of Harold Bloom, Eavan Boland and Molly Peacock, praising Bialosky's voice, her "dark chill power" and
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Jill Bialosky, Author . Harcourt $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-100685-4
Bialosky is an editor at Norton, already esteemed as a poet (Subterranean), and this lacerating first novel bears many traces of a poet's imagery and concentration. It is the story of a mother with three young daughters, devastated by the...
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Jill Bialosky, Author . Harcourt $24 (337p) ISBN 978-0-15-101047-9
B
ialosky falters in her maudlin second novel (after House Under Snow
). An academic conference in Paris provides literature professor and New Yorker Eleanor Cahn the opportunity to escape from her humdrum husband and to stir up some long dormant...
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Jill Bialosky, Author . Knopf $25 (79p) ISBN 978-0-307-26847-1
More self-assured and powerful than her first two, this third book of verse from Bialosky (The End of Desire
) modulates between restrained happiness and unpredictable sorrow, beginning by observing her grade-school–aged son, proceeding...
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Jill Bialosky, Atria, $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0193-3
The early death of Bialosky's sister Kim, who took her own life at age 21 in 1990, shocked and changed her family forever. The "sorrow, shame, and incredulity" surrounding her death in Shaker Heights, Ohio, overwhelmed Bialosky, and only in the past
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Jill Bialosky, Author Knopf Publishing Group $21 (80p) ISBN 978-0-679-45455-7
Just when it was becoming fashionable to admit having been raised in Cleveland, Bialosky's collection comes along to quiet the urge. In this first book, Ohio is a bland winterscape of fatherlessness, sister-worship and making out with men of...
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Jill Bialosky. Knopf, $26 (80p) ISBN 978-0-385-35262-8
Bialosky (Intruder), an editor at W.W. Norton, pens a heartfelt ode to the American suburbs and countryside as she explores the complexities of interpersonal, particularly familial, relationships. The book’s opening sequence, “Manhood,” uses...
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Jill Bialosky. Counterpoint, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61902-570-7
In this luminous behind-the-scenes view of the art world, the poet, novelist, and memoirist Bialosky (History of a Suicide) explores the complicated terrain of relationships, as well as the inspiration behind creativity and the roles commercialism...
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Jill Bialosky. Atria, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9320-1
Bialosky (History of a Suicide) weaves 51 poems by several writers into her latest memoir, which beautifully conveys the “mystery and wonder” of poetry. Born in 1950s Cleveland, Bialosky was a toddler when her father died; though she was close with...
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Jill Bialosky. Knopf, $27 (144p) ISBN 978-0-525-65709-5
The elegiac fifth collection from Bialosky (The Players) transcends genre, weaving tragedy, language, and perception in a poignant work of personal and public exploration. Embracing repetition and allusion, Bialosky confronts the memory of her...
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Jill Bialosky. Counterpoint, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64009-024-8
Bialosky (The Prize) contests patriarchal notions about life, marriage, and art in her clever if uneven latest. An unnamed poet and teacher regularly visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her refuge and source of inspiration. Through the lens of...
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Jill Bialosky. Washington Square, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7792-8
Poet, novelist, and Norton executive editor Bialosky (Asylum) delivers a nuanced portrait of her mother, Iris, who died in 2020. Telling the story in reverse, Bialosky opens with Iris’s death from Alzheimer’s while in hospice in Ohio, then...
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