false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225200293m/3303924.jpg 3303924 1 <p>"Big-hearted, individualistic in scope and voice, Idra Novey's <i>The Next Country </i>surveys a terrain that's truly multifaceted and calibrated down to every word, every nuance. Each poem's imagistic certainty enlarges meaning. Line by line, a playful innuendo moves us, and we find ourselves in that rugged country of the human spirit where enlightenment and surprise are twin rulers."-Yusef Komunyakaa</p><p>In these powerful lyric poems, Idra Novey's exploration of "country" extends beyond national boundaries into the countries of marriage and family, history and the unspoken, leading to a bold and imaginative reckoning of the self with the larger world.</p><p><b>From "Into the Atacama":</b></p><p><i>When I said I wished this trip, I meant the rush of song<br>as we left the city. I meant the bus. I meant the woman who<br>played her flip-fl ops like drum sticks against the window.<br>For singing with strangers in a desert is like getting closer<br>to the moon. And the glow of a moment is like a moon,<br>caught behind clouds and then visible and then hidden again.<br><br>And when I said here, I meant elsewhere-I meant moving.</i></p><p><b>Idra Novey has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers Magazine, the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series, and the PEN Translation Fund. Her poems have appeared in Slate, Paris Review, A Public Space, AGNI, Ploughshares, and in the anthology Poet in Your Pocket, forthcoming from the Academy of American Poets (Harry N. Abrams, 2008). In 2007, a book of her translations of Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto, The Clean Shirt of It, was published in the Lannan Translation Series with BOA Editions. Her translations and reviews appear in a number of publications, including BOMB, Zoetrope, and The Believer. 3340754 1 11 2008 The Next Country total:18|5:11|4:4|3:3|2:0|1:0| 18 80 32 3 3303924 1882295714 9781882295715 18 3 4.44 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225200293m/3303924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3303924.The_Next_Country 5 1 false Fri Jan 23 14:52:39 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 15:06:16 -0800 2009 3303924 1882295714 9781882295715 18 3 4.44 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225200293m/3303924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3303924.The_Next_Country 5 0 false Mon Mar 02 11:21:51 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 05:41:54 -0700 2009
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