Again, the Dawn - by Grace Schulman (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Exquisite new work along with a selection of her finest poems spanning five decades from the essential poet and national treasure, Frost Medal winner Grace Schulman.

Again, the Dawn draws together poems from
eight books plus a generous selection of new poems. In them, Grace Schulman
hears the call to praise tempered by stark details of city life such as
trumpets that blare "louder than street sirens." and iron fences / handwrought with lyres, Greek frets,
acanthus leaves." Schulman brings passion and
intelligence to bear on occasions she ponders, whether historical or
contemporary. In joy and in grief, she gazes at the light and sees the
majesty in ordinary things. This collection ranges across decades of prize-winning books, and yet, as its title exclaims, the poetry of
Grace Schulman is as new as the rising sun. As Julie Sheehan has written of her most recent volume, "Read this collection if you, too, have grieved. Read it if you
need your own guide to the underworld. Read it if you've ever felt proud to get
at the meaning of poems, of art, of music. Read it if you want to be restored
to the world around you, if late-stage capitalism or imperialism or politics
have numbed you. Read it, then look up, breathe in, raise your own hands, and
let Grace Schulman assure you: 'I'll be there, / gazing impiously -- unless / that
is what sacred is, the work, the looking up, / the wonder.'"

Review Quotes

PRAISE FOR AGAIN, THE DAWN

"Again, the Dawn is an especially well-edited selection, with a lifework's currents and concerns returning as quasi-musical themes." --On the Seawall

"Grace Schulman is a poet of brokenness and repair, of baffled mystery, of shatter and luminosity, grief transfigured into joy. Her life's work is a book of wonder."--Edward Hirsch

"The words Gravity and (indeed) Grace come to mind. These are weighty poems but never heavy handed. Remorseless magnificent energy pouring along, filtered by a powerful intellect and illuminated by a visionary imaginaire. A poetry book for the ages as well as for the age."--Anthony Rudolph

PRAISE FOR THE POETRY OF GRACE SCHULMAN

"Schulman is a torch."--Richard Howard

"One of the permanent poets of her generation."--Harold Bloom

"Grace Schulman is a national treasure."--Rowan Ricardo Phillips

"Schulman's beautiful poems are deft and intimate without ever becoming confessional. Clarity of idea and clarity of sound, rhythms equally at home in formal and in blank verse meet in an idiom that is perfected to a chiseled resonance." --The New Yorker

"There is nothing familiar about this poet's genius; that is its burden, and its immeasurable gift."--New York Times Book Review

PRAISE FOR AGAIN, THE DAWN

"Again, the Dawn is an especially well-edited selection, with a lifework's currents and concerns returning as quasi-musical themes." -On the Seawall

"Grace Schulman is a poet of brokenness and repair, of baffled mystery, of shatter and luminosity, grief transfigured into joy. Her life's work is a book of wonder."-Edward Hirsch

"The words Gravity and (indeed) Grace come to mind. These are weighty poems but never heavy handed. Remorseless magnificent energy pouring along, filtered by a powerful intellect and illuminated by a visionary imaginaire. A poetry book for the ages as well as for the age."-Anthony Rudolph

PRAISE FOR THE POETRY OF GRACE SCHULMAN

"Schulman is a torch."-Richard Howard

"One of the permanent poets of her generation."-Harold Bloom

"Grace Schulman is a national treasure."-Rowan Ricardo Phillips

"Schulman's beautiful poems are deft and intimate without ever becoming confessional. Clarity of idea and clarity of sound, rhythms equally at home in formal and in blank verse meet in an idiom that is perfected to a chiseled resonance." -The New Yorker

"There is nothing familiar about this poet's genius; that is its burden, and its immeasurable gift."-New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Grace Schulman holds the Frost Medal for Distinguished
Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry from the Poetry Society of America and is
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Her other honors include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, and five Pushcart
Prizes. She is author of a memoir, Strange
Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, editor of The
Poems of Marianne Moore, and is an essayist and
translator. Formerly Poetry Editor of The Nation and Director of
the Poetry Center, 92^nd Street Y, she is Distinguished Professor of
English at Baruch College, CUNY.