Letters to a Stranger: Poems (Re/View)

Letters to a Stranger: Poems (Re/View)

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<p><b>The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James</b><br><b></b></p><p><b>I will last forever. I am not impatient―</b><br><b>My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.</b><br><b>I'll lie here till the world swims back again.</b><br><b> ―from "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"</b></p><p>Thomas James's <i>Letters to a Stranger</i>―originally published in 1973, shortly before James's suicide―has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James's poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available.</p><br><p><i>Letters to a Stranger</i> is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.</p>