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Now available in paperback, the award-winning retrospective by Linda Gregg, "one of the best poets in America" (Gerald Stern)
Worlds out of time still exist.
Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering
just as the poem lasts.
In the concert of being present.
-from "Arriving"
Linda Gregg's abiding presence in American poetry for more than thirty years is a testament to the longevity of art and the spirit. All of It Singing collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and more than twenty remarkable new poems.
All of It Singing received the 2009 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, the 2009 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the 2009 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2009 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Linda Gregg is the author of six poetry collections, including In the Middle Distance. She received the 2006 PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry for achievement across her career. She lives in New York.
"Linda Gregg’s poems are so poignant, they’re almost like hymns. They’re about presence and absence and leave you on the precipice of an epiphany."
Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes
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“Does the soul care about the mightiness of this love? No. The soul is a place and love must find its way there.” Linda Gregg, "God's Places," All of It Singing "My soul shattered with the strain of trying to belong to earth—" Louise Glück, "Persephone the Wanderer," Averno