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From the melancholy, pandemic-inflected New Poems ("Can meaning take its storied place on suddenly vacant shores?") to the vatic lyricism of To Be Read in the Dark ("the smiling assassin / isn't a dream / what is embodied / asks us to listen"), to the meditations on gifts and giving in Among the Names ("among men / who find in the taking / the gift they seek / (use = accumulation"), this gorgeous and overdue volume amply demonstrates the amazi...

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Under the Music is cause for celebration, as it gathers over forty years of Maxine Chernoff's brilliant exploration of a single form: the prose poem. Her pieces abound in witty dialogue, absurdist jokes, sage advice, and a gallery of eccentric characters like "The Man Struck Twenty Times by Lightning, " or "The Woman Who Straddled the Globe.

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The series of poems in Maxine Chernoff's Without are elegiac brushstrokes, each somewhat feathery and brushing in more than one direction, which creates tension and unexpected arrivals as well as departures: someone or something is missing. Parts of the world are wavering and parts have disappeared. What remains is treated in the subtle management of the lines without a hint of punctuation, which allows for "waves" of attention, as meaning ris...

Maxine Chernoff's style is clear, lyric and moving--very human.--Sara Paretsky

Evolution of the Bridge collects prose poems from Maxine Chernoff's previous volumes written over the past thirty years. It features such classics as "The Last Aurochs, " "A Vegetable Emergency, " "Utopia TV Store, " "New Faces of 1952" and provides the reader with ample evidence that Maxine Chernoff continues to be one of the most significant practitioners of the prose poem in America today.

Highly regarded for her deft and humorous portrayals of the dark side of modern living, Maxine Chernoff's latest collection is a droll, poetic field guide to the endearing and troubling aspects of human behavior. Chernoff fans will relish the 16 new stories, and new readers will discover a wonderful assemblage of Chernoff's likeable and contemplative characters. Chernoff continues to establish herself as a master of the short story genre with ...