Masters of American Poetry: A Reading

Frank Bidart’s latest collection, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016, encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst. Hailed as “one of the great poets of the past hundred years,” Paul Muldoon’s Selected Poems 1968–2014 offers forty-six years of his work drawn from twelve individual collections. In Fast, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham’s first collection in five years, she explores the limits of the human and the uneasy seductions of the post-human. The poems in Galaxy Love by Gerald Stern, span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality.