A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Jorie Graham, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
Bedient, Calvin. Review of Overlord in Boston Review, April/May 2005
Caldwell, Roger. "At a suitable distance." A review of Never. "In Never, [Jorie Graham] asks the question that Heidegger reintroduced to philosophy: 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' She doesn't succeed in answering it. (Neither, for that matter, did Heidegger.) Rather, she uses it as the basis of a sense of wonder at existence itself, at the copiousness and variety of life, and to capture a sense of life as lived through time, no instance of which can ever be repeated." Times Literary Supplement, 6/27/03
Casper, R. N. About Jorie Graham. A readable introduction to Jorie Graham's life and poetry. In Ploughshares, 2001-2002 Winter; 27 (4): 189-93
Costello, Bonnie. A review of The Errancy, in Boston Review, October/ November 1997
Frazier, Jane. Short review of Region of Unlikeness in Literary Review, Fall, 1993
Gardner, Thomas (ed.) Jorie Graham : Essays on the Poetry (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005). Contributors include Bonnie Costello, Elisabeth Frost, Calvin Bedient, Helen Vendler, Anne Shifrer, Forrest Gander, and Stephen Burt
Gardner, Thomas. Regions of Unlikeness : Explaining Contemporary Poetry (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Graham, Jorie. Introduction: Something of Moment Jorie Graham explains the qualities that she values in poems she selected for publication. In Ploughshares, Winter 2001-02
Graham, Jorie. University of Iowa Presidential Lecture by Jorie Graham, in which she talks about war language and the euphemeisms used in speaking of war, 2/3/91
Ingram, Claudia "'Fission and Fusion both Liberate Energy': James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and the Metaphoric Imagination." In Twentieth Century Literature, 2005 Summer; 51 (2): 142-78
Karagueuzian, Catherine Sona. No Image There and the Gaze Remains: The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham (Routledge, 2005)
Lewis, Gwyneth. "A child of Whitman." Review of The Errancy, from Times Literary Supplement, 11/20/98
Logan, William. Review of Jorie Graham's Never (part of long review) In The New Criterion, June 2002
Longenbach, J. Review of Modern Poetry After Modernism (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997). "In chapters on Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Richard Wilbur, Richard Howard, Robert Pinsky, Amy Clampitt, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Longenbach shows how quite various poets mined a much wider and more variegated vein of modernism than our reductive histories recall." In College Literature, Fall 1998 Reviewed by Michael Thurston
Lorberer, Eric. A review of The Errancy in Rain Taxi, Vol. 2, no. 3
Oakes, Elizabeth. "To 'hold them in solution, unsolved': The Ethics of Wholeness in Four Contemporary Poems." On Adrienne Rich, Mark Strand, David Smith, and Jorie Graham. From Real, Vol. 25, No. 1, a journal from Stephen F. Austin State Univ.
Osborn, Andrew. A review of Swarm in February/March 2000 issue of Boston Review
Padel, Ruth. The Sunday Poem: No. 111 Jorie Graham A short analysis of "Prayer" and its themes. In The Independent (London), 5/20/01
Ramke, Bin. "Celebrating a World in Danger" A Review of Never
Rankine, Claudia; and Juliana Spahr (eds.) Publisher's blurb for American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. "Each section of the book is devoted to a single poet and contains new poems; a brief "statement of poetics" by the poet herself in which she explores the forces - personal, aesthetic, political - informing her creative work; a critical essay on the poet's work; a biographical statement." Covers Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Harryette Mullen
Redmond, John. In a brief review of The Errancy (for a British audience) Redmond writes, "Graham's visual style is individual enough, and is caused by the yet more individual shape of her thinking, with its earnest, many-angled way of encountering the given world." In Thumbscrew, No 12 - Winter 1998/9
Sadoff, Ira. "Trafficking in the Radiant: The Spiritualization of American Poetry." Article on the increasing interest in the religious and spiritual in modern poetry. "Recent collections-some more and some less authentically-by Jorie Graham, Cal Bedient, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Li-Young Lee, Franz Wright, W. S. DiPiero, Michael Ryan, Jane Hirschfeld and Mark Jarman, just to name a few, accentuate our poets' interest in the spiritual." American Poetry Review, 7/1/05
Sampson, Fiona. "Mirror image." "Jorie Graham teaches us about the nature of being human with her poetic reflection on war, Overlord, says Fiona Sampson." In The Guardian, 2/25/06
Tourjee, Mary Ann. A Reading and Discussion Guide for Jorie Graham's Never. Several discussion questions and suggested activities. A Massachusetts Award winner prepared by a librarian, 2004
Tyler, Meg. A short review of Overlord (Ecco, 2005). "I can think of few poets writing today who strive more toward moral accountability than Graham." Harvard Review, 12/1/05
Vendler, Helen. Publisher's blurb for The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham [Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jorie Graham] (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995). "Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, Helen Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic... Vendler looks at Jorie Graham's departure from short lines to numbered lines to squared long lines of sentences, marking a move from deliberation to cinematic "freeze-framing" to coverage, each with its own meaning in this poet's career."
Vendler, Helen. Publisher's blurb for The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995). Covers Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Berryman, Lowell
Ten poems in American Poetry Review, 11/1/95
"Little Exercise" in American Poetry Review, 9/1/04
"Underneath (Libation)" in American Poetry Review, 11/1/99
"For One Must Want/To Shut the Other's Gaze" in American Poetry Review, 11/1/97
"Underneath (9)" in Boston Review
"The Guardian Angel of the Private Life" in Boston Review
"The Errancy" in Ploughshares, Winter 1995-96
"Act IV, Sc. 1" in Ploughshares, Spring 1987
"Kimono" in Ploughshares, Winter 1980-81
"I Was Taught Three" in Ploughshares, Spring 1979
"In High Waters" in Ploughshares, Spring 1979
"The Surface," reprinted, from the Dia Center
Very brief introduction to Jorie Graham from Academy of American Poets, reprints "Prayer," "San Sepolcro," "Spoken From the Hedgerows," Jorie Graham's introduction to The Best American Poetry 1990 and an interview by Mark Wunderlich
Brief interview with Jorie Graham by Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour, 4/12/96, on winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field
Profile of Jorie Graham in connection with her faculty appointment at Harvard, in the Harvard University Gazette, 10/7/99
Publisher Carcanet's web page on Jorie Graham contains information about ordering some of her books and reprints of a few reviews
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