Ask a Bookseller: ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss
Julie Schultz of This House of Books in Billings, Montana recommends a book of poetry that made the finalist list for its category of the National Book Awards: Diane Seuss’s “Modern Poetry.” It’s not the first national recognition for Seuss, whose collection “frank: sonnets” won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2022. Both were published by Graywolf Press in Minneapolis. Whether you’re steeped in poetic tradition or approaching verse for the first time, Julie says you’ll find something to love in this collection, which challenges the notion that modern poetry should be dark and serious or…
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