Poetry. "Elaine Sexton knows how to raise autobiography to the level of true poetry, and this knack has much to do with her use of surprise. Just when we think we know where one of her poems is going, we step into air. SLEUTH leads us carefully into her life through a series of bracing verbal delights" -Billy Collins.

Sleuth (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Literature & Fiction

Sexton, Elaine

Poetry

New Issues Poetry and Prose

Poetry. "Lodged in various locales, whether urban or rural, earthbound or on the open sea, answering a landscape, a family memory, or the vagaries of love, the poems of CAUSEWAY are always informed by an honest buoyancy of spirit that can mix 'the scent of lilacs' with 'smokers' coughs,' as imagination testifies to the hard-won realization that 'Even in these / toxic times, we live, we thrive.'"--Eamon Grennan. "Again and again the poet attempts to reconcile herself to 'the everyday obscene,' always 'searching for home / in a thrift shop find, something a mother, / not yours or mine, left behind.' CAUSEWAY celebrates the probability of such human connection in poems taut and insistent and resonant with desire. When Sexton writes, speaking for us all, '[T]he ones / who love me love me, god knows why,' we know she's not quite joking"--Michael Waters.

Causeway (Green Rose Books)

Prospect/Refuge

Sheep Meadow Press

<p>Poems exploring our most fragile points of connectionóto lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.\n'Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants,' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea,' at once a description of a carís body propelling her onward, and of the poet herself, the one behind the wheel of this masterful fourth collection. In an extraordinary act of volition, the author does not stop at the trope of ambition, but powers instead toward the urgent concerns of the will, and intention.<br />
Poetry.</p>

Drive

Grid Books

Site Specific: New and Selected Poems

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