To 2040

By Jorie Graham,

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Winner of the Laurel Prize 2023.

To 2040 begins with question masquerading as fact: 'Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map.' These visionary new poems reveal Graham as historian, cartographer, prophet, plotting an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired…

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1 author picked To 2040 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The pandemic and the existential questions it raised sent me on a poetry kick, deeper than I’d ever dived before.

Jorie Graham’s elegant cry for help from the heart of this planet resounded just right for me, and I’m afraid it may have the power to keep doing so until the distant year the title references and beyond.    

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