Results for "Rogoff, Jay"

In lyric poetry with the dramatic sweep of a historical novel, Jay Rogoff's Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870 reimagines "the terrible year" when the Franco-Prussian War shook the City of Lights. The great comic ballet Copp lia had dazzled Paris and Emperor Napoleon III mere weeks before war er... Read More about Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870: Poems

Drawing on forty years of published work, Jay Rogoff's Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems marks a milestone in the career of this confident, wise, and rigorous poet. The volume presents over one hundred poems from earlier collections alongside forty--seven poems previously unavailable in book f... Read More about Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems (Sea Cliff Fund)

Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact upon readers. His essays, drawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, explore how the ... Read More about Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods

In The Long Fault, Jay Rogoff explores how the disasters of human history scar the individ-ual psyche and how our creative acts of art and love help us to resist this damage. Af-ter opening with Cain launched into exile--"from the good book hurled / out to beget the world"--Rogoff then sweeps us al... Read More about The Long Fault: Poems

Praise for Jay Rogoff" Rogoff's] poetry takes a visible art of movement and translates the feelings it evokes and the history it records into delicate words.... But Rogoff also has an amazing knack for the humor in humanity, as a slew of death-defying poems demonstrates." -- Andrew Burstein, The Bat... Read More about Venera: Poems

George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century's foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing -- from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party -- the secret rhythms of our... Read More about Art of Gravity: Poems