All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
• Published by: Graywolf Press
• Edition: 1st Edition September 2, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1555975070
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1555975074
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review


The first retrospective collection by Linda Gregg,“one of the more impressive, generous, and wise of today’s front-line poets” —Library Journal

“Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry. She helps us see how we can once again engage the sublime and the awesome, in our polluted and corrupt time. Her subject is loss and separation and the intense search for redemption, which she is able to realize through a profoundly honest, and moving, language. She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America.” —Gerald Stern

Product Description
Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering,           just as the poem lasts. In the concert of being present.                                                           —from “Arriving”

Linda Gregg’s abiding presence in American poetry for more than thirty years is a testament to the longevity of art and the spirit. All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems for the first time collects the ongoing work of Gregg’s career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and thirty remarkable new poems.

Reader Reviews
Gregg's work has been from the beginning consistently timid, cramped and imitative, characterized by a failure to believe in her own voice, stand on her own feet, or take any chances. I always wanted to believe that she is capable of more, but with this collection I guess it's time to give up. I guess she really wants to be a Jack Gilbert sock puppet. Maybe this is what she can do. It's sad and very hard to respect.