Graywolf Press imprint: 249 books

by Maggie Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities...

Geek Sublime

The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

by Vikram Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction,...

Thrill Me

Essays on Fiction

by Benjamin Percy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered...

The Art of Subtext

Beyond Plot

by Charles Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the...

The Art of Death

Writing the Final Story

by Edwidge Danticat
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other...

The Art of Description

World into Word

by Mark Doty
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes...

The Art of Intimacy

The Space Between

by Stacey D'Erasmo
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below "What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and...

WHEREAS

Poems

by Layli Long Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...

Citizen

An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE...
by Danez Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection **“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—**The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated...

Look

Poems

by Solmaz Sharif
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array...
by Erika L. Sánchez
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry The first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous. I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat. I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning. Of course I put my...

Ask Me

100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

by William Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab Nye Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. —from "Ask Me" In celebration...

Eye Level

Poems

by Jenny Xie
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I’ve been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes...
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