Poetry 365

March 22, 2013

Jessica Greenbaum
Poet Jessica Greenbaum

This month for Poetry 365 we’re highlighting Jessica Greenbaum’s eloquent new volume The Two Yvonnes.  Chosen for Paul Muldoon’s series of Princeton Contemporary Poets, the upstreet editor’s second collection employs prose-like free verse, sonnets, and a single pantoun in explorations of the urban everyday akin to Elizabeth Bishop and W.G. Sebald.  Organic and unhurried, these 42 poems showcase what PW called Greenbaum’s “great intelligence, skill with abstraction, humor, and talent for endings” while raising her writing “far above the mundane.”  So check out this excellent new collection, sample a poem below, and clear your calendar… our National Poetry Month celebration is about to begin.

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