{"product_id":"paley-grace-begin-agai","title":"Paley, Grace: Begin Again: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eMarch 14, 2001\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing the vicissitudes of life in New York City or the hard beauty of rural Vermont, whether celebrating the blessings of friendship or protesting against social injustice, her poems brim with compassion and tough good humor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"She is funny and poignant, a writer of great power and great delicacy. She is one of our finest--and most original--poets.\" --\u003ci\u003eGerald Stern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"What I love most in Grace Paley's poetry is her unquenchable sense that the artist's life is not somewhere at the margins of community, that a dialogue is necessary between the poet and her people. The North American enterprise has injured this dialogue. Paley's exuberant, heartbreaking, committed poems call it back to health.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The art that Paley has displayed in her celebrated short stories is generally replaced in her poems by spontaneous, personal speech. These poems provide a tour through Paley's life, telling of her friends, her childhood memories and her struggle to come to terms with age and mortality.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAdam Kirsch, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Paley is a master of the short form. . . . Her no-frills poetry, like that of the classic Chinese, speaks worlds with a minimum of words. . . . Paley's attentiveness, wry sense of self, and gift for finding drama in the plainest of moments imbue her poetry with toughness and joy.\" -- \u003ci\u003eDonna Seaman, Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In Paley, life, literature and politics converge--nonviolently, of course--in a cunning patchwork quilt of radiance and scruple, witness and example, nurture and nag, subversive humor and astonishing art: a Magical Socialism and a Groucho Marxism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJohn Leonard, The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817131651095,"sku":"9780374527242","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_9f29cb56-b56e-4b94-8303-9fdb8e6d8e0b.jpg?v=1703281039","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/paley-grace-begin-agai","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}