An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.

This selection, including several revised and new poems, creates a startlingly fresh trajectory through books whose brilliance and far-reaching innovations have significantly influenced the landscape of contemporary poetry, both in the United States and abroad. From the New World-part spiritual autobiography, part survival manual-tracks what it is to attempt wakefulness in this moment of human history.

From the early poems set in Tennessee and Kentucky, to the expansive embrace of the poet’s childhood Rome or the Normandy of the Second World War, to the explorations of myth, art, faith, technology, and ultimately the fate of the planet itself-whose imperiled beauty and intricate complexity few poets have so powerfully confronted and celebrated-the book brings us face to face with our New World.

We finally have, in one volume, the stunning story she has written to keep both art and the human spirit instantaneously yet enduringly alive.