A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets.
Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of Americaâs most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where heâs headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous workâlyric poems, prose poems, and a searing episodic personal epic, âAn Odyssey of Appetite,â exploring Americaâs limitless material and spiritual hungers.
Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrathâs voracious intellect and deep empathyâeverything from Japanese eggplant to a can of Schaefer beer to the smokestacks of Chicago comes in for a close and perceptive look even as McGrath crosses borders and boundaries, investigating the enduring human experiences of love and loss.
A book that stands on its own solid foundation, Nouns & Verbs captures the voice and vision of a truly singular poet.