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iSBN 978-0-14-312141-4 $18.00 ($19.00 CAN)
Poetry 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 80 pp.
Rights: E00 A Penguin Poets Original
On sale: 5/29/2012
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“ Julianne Buchsbaum’s third collection
of poems, The Apothecary’s Heir, is riddled
with ‘venom and wonder,’ heavy with
the freight of mystery and prayer. The
abundance of Hopkins ghosts this work
even as it cleaves to the immediacy of
the Now. Lavish, edgy, precise—
these are poems that come from a ‘splitopen
husk of the world.’ ”
—Lucie Brock-Broido
Selected for the National Poetry Series
by Lucie Brock-Broido
The Apothecary’s Heir
Julianne Buchsbaum
Selected by Lucie Brock-Broido
Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid,
alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise” (Reginald Shepherd);
“there is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her
incredible diction,” says Matthew Rohrer. Her new collection, The
Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the speaker
is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath
of loss. A series of meditations on landscapes of our postmodern
world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along
a highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human
connectedness and anatomize desire in a world of pharmaceuticals
and microchips.
JuliAnne BuChsBAuM received an MFA from the
Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Ph.D. in literature from the University
of Missouri. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry,
Slowly, Slowly and A Little Night Comes, and her work has appeared
in Verse, Southwest, and Harvard Review among other publications.
She lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas, where she is a humanities
librarian for the University of Kansas.
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