“ Cleave is not only the story of a transnational adoption. Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic Its stories will be news to many and all too familiar to others. This is a book of remarkable compassion and real horror. With breathtaking lyric beauty and formidable formal range, Nobile details the intimate effects of the international adoption industrial complex on children and parents caught up in a system’s unrelenting hunger. It is, to my mind, one of the most powerful examples of how poetry can cut to the heart of how a country’s vision of itself can wreak unimaginable harm on the lives and bodies of the people it purports to protect, value, and represent. A new collection of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press.“I have been waiting with such anticipation for Tiana Nobile’s remarkable first book, Cleave, to make its way into the world. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social-both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.Īlan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is Assistant Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Īlan Shapiro’s newest book of poetry is situated at the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her poems have been featured in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The New York Times, and Washington Post. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of two previous collections. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer. Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. We're thrilled to host poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, who will discuss her new book Rocket Fantastic with Alan Shapiro, author most recently of Life Pig.Ībout Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Rocket Fantastic:įrom the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, a spellbinding reinvention of self, family, and gender.

Rocket Fantastic: Poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Alan Shapiro discuss their new books

Rocket fantastic poems