Nouns Verbs, Campbell McGrath
Nouns Verbs, Campbell McGrath
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Nouns & Verbs
New and Selected Poems

Author: Campbell McGrath

Narrator: Campbell McGrath

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 04/02/2019

Synopsis

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 America’s most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he’s headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous work—lyric poems, prose poems, and a searing episodic personal epic, “An Odyssey of Appetite,” exploring America’s limitless material and spiritual hungers.Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrath’s voracious intellect and deep empathy—everything 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.

About Campbell McGrath

Campbell McGrath is the author of nine previous books, eight of them available from Ecco Press. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his poetry, including a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been published in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among other prominent publications, and his poetry is represented in dozens of anthologies. He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University, and lives with his family in Miami Beach.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peycho on December 12, 2020

My Sadness Another year is coming to an end but my old t-shirts will not be back— the pea-green one from Trinity College, gunked with streaks of lawn-mower grease, the one with orange bat wings from Diamond Cavern, Kentucky, vanished without a trace. After a two-day storm I wander the beach admiring the ocean......more

Goodreads review by James on September 19, 2019

Campbell McGrath's poetry is full of images of the American landscape - from Florida coastline to august Western mountains as well as long stretches of highway, gas stations, convenience stores, diners at midnight and even the most minute, mundane detritus of everyday (e.g., a crushed beer can, a de......more

Goodreads review by David on August 05, 2019

Campbell McGrath’s Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems is a wild, mischievous read that continually questions and checks a reader’s responses. Just when you’re thinking that he’s a little too self-consciously modernist, he will startle you with lines with a formal elegance that seems from another......more

Goodreads review by Heather on July 04, 2024

There are some poems that I just adored, and I also very much appreciated his ability to see the humor/absurdity of life and communicate that so well. I’m not a fan of prose poems in general, so those I could have done without—but this is a large collection: a lot of variety and a lot to like. Favori......more

Goodreads review by Bob on September 04, 2019

I admire people who can describe the ordinary in the extraordinary way poet Campbell McGrath has done here, although I estimate I only grasped the meaning behind the words a percentage of the time. Perhaps it's the travelogue aspect of "Nouns & Verbs" that put me in the right mood to enjoy these pie......more

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