Results for "Barnett, Catherine"

The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces—at bedside vigils and in city streets—quickens Catherine Barnett’s metaphysical poems, which are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience. Here loneliness is filled with belonging, which is in turn filled with loneliness, each ... Read More about Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems

Winner of the Believer Book AwardThe triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin AwardCatherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle ... Read More about Human Hours: Poems

*Winner of the 2012 James Laughlin Award*The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made" (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post)Everyone asks us what we're afraid ofbut children aren't supposed to say.We could put loneliness on the list.We coul... Read More about The Game of Boxes: Poems

The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understan... Read More about Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. Readers will find eloquence, urgency, and idiosyncrasy, poems all in English but springing from drastically varied voices, geographies, and histories. Us... Read More about Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World

The detailed specialist reports in this volume cover the late Iron Age and Roman human bone and animal bone assemblages recovered during the reported excavations, as well as environmental remains and dating evidence relating to contemporary landscape, subsistence and economy. A single cremation buri... Read More about Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley: Ctrl Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent - The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape: Volume 3