Jorie Graham

What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How - in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear - does one retain one's capacity to be both present and responsive?

Jorie Graham is the author of twelve collections of poems. Her poetry, widely translated, has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), and the International Nonino Prize. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University

Pulitzer Prize-winning, contemporary American poet Jorie Graham has been lauded as "one of our most important living poets," as "one of the best, and most intelligent, poets in the language," the non-scholarly journal Current Biography reports, quoting from reviews of her books (199).