Acclaimed as one of America’s most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty.Here she selects from the five books that preceded her 2012 Forward Prize-winning collection P L A C E, presenting European readers with a coherent and compelling body of work.The book complements her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field (1996), which selected work from her first five books.Jorie Graham’s poems address a planet spinning towards an unknowable future.They challenge us to inhabit a more responsive and responsible place in language and the world.Her poetry is as urgent as it is essential.