Materialism March 1993 112 pages Poetry $22.95 (HARDCOVER) Ecco Press :: selected poetry from Materialism :: Purchase this book: [USA/International]

About her work, James Longenbach wrote in The New York Times: "For 30 years Jorie Graham has engaged the whole human contraption — intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic — rather than the narrow emotional slice of it most often reserved for poems. She thinks of the poet not as a recorder but as a constructor of experience. Like Rilke or Yeats, she imagines the hermetic poet as a public figure, someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and political issues of the time simply by writing poems."