{"product_id":"estes-angie-the-swallopb","title":"Estes, Angie: The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnbound Edition Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 17, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025 brings together three decades of Angie Estes's extraordinary linguistic alchemy. Opening with selections from her newest collection, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, and including selections from her acclaimed previous books, these poems illuminate connections between art, memory, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstes weaves together classical mythology and contemporary longing, European art and American landscapes, creating a tapestry where Dante converses with Miles Davis, swallows become stars, and the past ignites our lives. Her signature style — playful yet profound, erudite yet accessible — transforms everyday moments into revelations through stunning juxtapositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether exploring the mosaics of Hagia Sophia, the vineyards of Burgundy, or a mother's handwriting, Estes finds the sacred in the quotidian. This essential volume confirms her position as one of our most distinctive voices, a poet who makes language itself a form of devotion, a way of entering the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__block product__description type-body-regular rte\"\u003e\"Reading a poem by Angie Estes is like listening in on the intricate turnings and realizations of a brilliant mind, a mind that follows one path only to discover another more surprising one, a mind that observes with an acuteness and intelligence I can only envy … But there is gravity here, as well, beneath the slipperiness of language — a sense of the profound presence of our cultural pasts, the seductiveness of image and language, the power of romantic longing, connection, and loss.\" — Kevin Prufer, previous praise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Neruda, Glück, Tranströmer, Bishop . . . and, yes, Angie Estes, a poet who to my mind is their equal. At once propulsive and recursive, wildly erudite and supremely sensual, these are revelatory poems. Which is to say poems that delight again and again in profound and playful paradox, their mysteries both timeless and precisely occasional, as if announced in the voice of an oracle or a 10th century mystic via a battered drive-in movie speaker. Which is to say, Estes at the peak of her powers — and what powers to behold.\" — Daniel Lawless, previous praise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whenever I see a poem by Angie Estes I prepare myself for serious de-light. Her timing and her ever-uninhibited instinct for poetic shape are the triumphs of a first-rate musical intelligence. Angie Estes is Fred Astaire and Ginger too: backwards in high heels, forward on rollerskates, never have classy and sexy been better matched.\" — Linda Gregerson, previous praise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a poetry of style, elegance, and fresh sur-prise, for the ear and the eye, the heart and the mind. It reminds me why I read.\" — Langdon Hammer, previous praise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...whose poems stand out as pleasingly intricate, invitingly melodious, tantalizingly smart but never confounding, founded on sinuous curves and diminutive things? Angie Estes's poems do. She not only achieves self-conscious beauty but writes about it, about why we need it, and about how it can emerge in our adult lives, our griefs, our sexual joys, our thwarted loves, and our imagined or literal travels...[An Estes poem is] an enduring construction — like Venice on wooden posts: it's beautiful, fragile, made to last, artificial all the way down, and better for it, a kind of building no one can accomplish alone.\" — Stephanie Burt, from the foreword\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44609836548119,"sku":"9781968274023","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781968274023ita_533x_2260c146-b901-4f28-bffc-ce58e06c3703.jpg?v=1771620601","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/estes-angie-the-swallopb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}