Laverne Frith

“poems of balanced wildness and instinctual grace.”

“a brilliantly moving book.”

“Sealey’s passions radiate and radiate through these poems.”

“These poems breathe an uneasy luminescence into the language of poetry.”

“These poems represent Jorie Graham at her unfettered best.”

“poems of longing, of grieving and wanting, poems of a recovered past and its once lost values. . . . an abundant volume to read.”

“This is a volume rich with the wisdom of one of our finest poets, a book laced with darkness and saturated with light.”

Ekphrastic poetry utilizes the medium of verse to address, to interpret, and to transliterate another art form.

“Each of these moving poems is a metaphor of mutuality and mutability, of vulnerability and union.”

Ron Padgett is a writer with a consummate sense of the fantastical as it intersects the quotidian.

“From the New World is an indispensable addition to any literary library, a tour de force selection of Jorie Graham’s critically important poems to date.”

“This volume is a courageous contribution to a world view of poetry and to poetic possibility.”

“Open the metaphorical doors and windows to this fine collection; let the textures and textures that are so generously infused into these poems find a place in your imagination.”

“. . . revelatory, a testament to Di Donato’s ability to deconstruct the complex weavings and machinations of the human heart.”

“. . . destined for a well-deserved place in American letters.”

Vale Ave has been released by New Directions Press as Poetry Pamphlet #7 in their pamphlet series, which represents a significant reprinting of this outstanding long poem by the legendary

“. . . truly impressive . . .”

“. . . breezily contemporary in feel, yet deeply lyrical in quality and effect.”

“. . . an important contribution to Spanish-language poetry . . . a passionate joy to read.”